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in November 1986, America's most decorated war hero was sent into the notorious "Golden Triangle" to report on missing U.S. prisoners of war. He returned with evidence of U.S. State Department and C.I.A. involvement in heroin trafficking - ona scale unheard of in criminal history. This is the first in a series of articles lifting the lid on government involvement in the world's biggest industry - Drugs Incorporated! at I want to tell you very quickly is something that I feel is more heinous than the Bataan death march. Certainly it is of more concern to you as Americans than Watergate. What I’m talking about is something we found out in Burma - May 1987. We found it out from a man named Khun Sa. He is the recognised overlord of heroin in the world. Last year he sent 900 tons of opiates and heroin into the free world. This year it will be 1200 tons On video tape he said to us something that was most astounding: - that US government officials have been and are now his biggest customers, and have been for the last twenty years. I wouldn’t believe him. We fought a war in Laos and Cambodia even as we fought whatever it was in Vietnam. The point is that there are as many bomb holes in those two other countries as there are in Vienam. Five hundred and fifty plus Americans were lost in Laos. Not one of them ever came home. We heard a president say, “The war is over, we are out with honour - all of the prisoners are home.” and a few other lies. Now we got rid of that presi- dent, but we didn’t get rid of the problem. We ran the war in Laos and Cambodia through drugs. The money that would not be appropriated by a liberal con- gress, was appropriated. And you know who we used for distribution? Santos Trafficante, old friend of the CIA and mobster out of Cuba and Florida. We lost the war! Fifty-eight-thousand Americans were killed. Seventy- thousand became drug casualties. In the sixties and seven- ties you saw an infusion of drugs into America like never was before. Where do you think the Mafia takes the heroin and opiates that it gets through its arrangement with the US government? It doesn’t distribute them in Africa or Europe. This is the big money bag here. We’re Daddy Warbucks for them. Drugs Incorporated! The following is edited from a transcript of Lt Col James "Bo" Gritz addressing the American Liberty Lunch Club, and is taken from the video, “A NATION BETRAYED”. So I submit to you that the CIA has been pressed for solu- tions. Each time they have gone to the sewer to find it. And you can’t smell like a rose when you’ve been playing in the cesspool. We’ve been embracing organised crime. Now you’ve all looked and heard about Ollie North, about the Contras, about nobody knowing anything. We have a constitution that says that the laws will be made by the Congress, enforced by the executive branch, interpreted by the judicial branch. But in reality we have an JUNE-JULY 1992 40°NEXUS ~—-