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DRUGS, Inc. ritory from all over the Golden Triangle. They came in. He sat everybody down. He brought his secretary out. He had his secretary read from their log. Bo: I cannot ask the General to cut your throat by revealing any contact that would hurt your economy at this moment. But I pray that he will reveal any connec- tions from the older time or that will not hurt you now. That if they are still in power, we might be free of them. Khun Sa: Some of the connections I can expose to you. Some were in Burma, somewhere in Thailand, some were in America. But I don’t remember all of their names and my secretary remembers them so he will give you the information. Secretary: In 1965 to 1975 there is one CIA in Laos, his name was Shakley. He was involved the narcotics busi- ness. And we know that Shakley used one civilian to organise trafficking. His civilian name was Santos Trafficante. He was the organiser of trafficking for Shakley. This was financed by Richard Armitage who stayed in Vietnam. After the Vietnam war Richard Armitage was a prominent trafficker in Bangkok. This was between 1975 to 1979 he was a very active traffick- er in Bangkok. He was one of the embassy employees. Then after that in 1979 he quit from embassy and then he established a company name the Far East Trading company. Then he used the name of his company under the table for drug trafficking. He then used the drug money to support the Lao anti-communist troops. Bo: So he used it in arms and munitions? Secretary: Yes. This Richard Armitage has a lot of friends in Laos and Thailand. There is a lot of CIA per- sonnel in Laos. One of the CIA agents is named Daniel Arnold. This Arnold was a munitions trafficker. There is another one Jerry Daniels who organised trafficking for Richard Armitage. One of the men named by Khun Sa, this is not me naming him - this is Khun Sa the drug overlord reading from his records, was Richard Armitage, - named as being a chief drug trafficker from 1965 through 1979! You know where Richard Armitage went in 1979? He went to Dole’s staff, then to Reagan’s campaign staff and now he is the Assistant Secretary of Defence right under- neath Mr. Carlucci. Richard Armitage has been responsible for recovery of US prisoners of war way back before we actually got involved with H. Ross Perot. He is still respon- sible for them. What I’m trying to do is find you Khun Sa’s JUNE-JULY 1992 NEXUS¢45 Continued on page 67 Renee eee |