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tell me to erase and forget.” When I got to LA with the tape he said, “Bo, don’t come.” He was that much of a friend. He said, "Don’t come. Hide those tapes. Everybody's laying for you.” He said, “But please destroy and forget. That’s all the state department wants you to do because otherwise you're going to jail as a felon.” You know what they charged me with? They did charge me. Misuse of a passport. Now that is a weeny charge for somebody that's been in clandestine warfare for more than 30 years. That throws me in league with Jane Fonda. She was cavorting with the enemy and misusing her passport. Ollie North and Robert McValium went to Iran on Irish passports so they could do an illegal arms deal, but nobody has charged them. That's because they’re cooperating. Well, I’m not worried about that. The US attomey doesn’t know how hard to take it because I said, “I don’t deny | misused a passport. - I misused it many times. Every time in pursuit of US prisoners of war.” You dear citizen, see if you would erase and go back to sleep and forget. I don’t think that you will. In my defense | got a lawyer, he’s the former US attomey for Nevada. He took my case for free other than al] the expenses it cost to bring in witnesses. We're going to use this court as a forum for prisoners of war and for government in drug dealing because you know you can’t sue the government, but when the government jumps on you now you can turn it around on them. That's exactly what were doing. | got a plea the other day say- ing, “Bo, just go ahead and cop a plea it'll be a misdemeanor.” No way José, were going all the way with this one. {Narrator] "The seriousness of Gritz’s discoveries during his first mission to the Golden Triangle, however was brought home immediately after his return. Scott Weekly, his Operation Lazarus team mem- ber and veteran of several POW recovery missions, was arrested and charged with a federal violation resulting from the Afghan training program he helped Gritz conduct." "Weekly was a classmate of Oliver North’s at Annapolis and has a PhD in physics. After numerous forays into hostile enemy terri- tory neither he nor Gritz were prepared for the treachery that awaited the mat home." {Bo in Thailand} The ambassador level person for the US government in charge of narcotics control made a statement immediately following the release of this tape to the White House that the United States would never agree to talk with General Khun Sa about drug control because he was such a black-hearted criminal. I believe that we can show through facts that have already been established by the US Justice Department and on-going investigations that there are people currently who saw that tape in the US government that all that they could to stop this interview right here for fear they would be exposed. Even to the point where they arrested Scott Weekly for a minor technicality of transporting explosives illegally on a com- mercial airliner. Very briefly we were training a couple of Afghan freedom fighters through the knowledge and request of the US State Department and other official agencies. The explosives were procured for us from Fort Sill, Oklahoma and were naturally transported, because we were using them at a remote desert base, by aircraft. There was no danger to the civilian aircraft. The explosives were C4, plastic, frontline safe. You could shoot them with a machine gun and they wouldn’t go off. There were no detonating devices with us. Federal agents told Scott when he was taken into custody that it wasn’t a tech- nicality and that the real target was me. They were under pressure by the US attomey’s office to find out whether or not | was in kahoots with North and Poindexter since I had travelled to Latin America and to the Middle East in pursuit of various government associated pro- jects. The fact is and the truth is that I’ve had nothing to do with North and Poindexter or any illegal activities either in South America or the Middle East. Now the truth is that I believe that elements in the US government are afraid that they will be exposed for their illegal activi- ties and drug trafficking. Through that exposure that this will cease and they will loose their power. ee i a our soldiers overseas to do something that they were not meant to do. I'm a fighter, but when we fight we ought to fight to win. And when we send people we ought to be willing to bring them back again. (much applause) We did go before congress. You know who runs the drug task force in the House of Representatives? Lawrence Smith. He is a democrat from "Miami Vice” Florida and his staff told me before I came up, “Bo, you better be well-heeled-for-bear because the people who keep the chairman in office are more prone to promote drugs than they are to fight them.” When I got up there Lawrence Smith would not allow any members General Khun Sa has extended an offer in writing to turn over to the United States Government on March 15, 1988 one ton of refined Asian heroin, that sells for $250,000 per pound to distributors, as a show of good faith that he would stop 1200 tons of heroin from entering the free world in 1988. The response of the State Department was, “no interest.” of the task force to view the video tapes that we brought from Khun Sa in Burma. He asked me, “Colonel, how could a man of your intelligence put any stock at all in what a drug warlord would say?” I said, “Mr. Chairman, aren’t we dealing with Michael Gorbochev and he’s a com- munist. But we talk to him because he has the missiles and we want to reduce them. Khun Sa has all the heroin and if we want to stop it he’s the guy we ought to see.” And he says, “What’s this business about a heroin highway? How do we know the Thai’s didn’t build that road to attack Khun Sa?” And | said, “Well Chairman, if they did, they did a heck of a good job because it goes right straight to his headquarters and nobody is attacking and he his own little customs houses all along the road where the little bar comes down.” He ended the hearing by saying, “I don’t think there is any substan- tive evidence here that would indicate any further investigation need be made.” He never called H. Ross Perot. He never called the Christic Institute. He never allowed the tapes or the letter that Khun Sa wrote because I found out that video tapes aren’t enough. They said, “Well, he didn’t write anything.” Then we had a letter with his signature on it under the Shan seal. Point is Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a parallel government this day that lives within the United States government. It is a parasite! I don’t think it makes a hoot who you vote for for President. The same people are gonna run this country. I stand before you today. You gotta know who I am. I’m an indicted felon because part of that phone call in Thailand said, “Bo, if you don’t erase and forget, if you don’t come to the apartment (that was a safehouse in Washington, DC), you’re gonna be charged with 15 years and your going to serve as a felon and we're going to bring up aggravated charges and hostile wit- nesses.” That’s not my kind of language. I said, “Friend, that’s an insult to you, me and two hundred years of constitutional government.” He said, “Bo, don’t give me that. Bring everything you’ve got to the apartment.” I said, “Who’s going to be there, Joe?” And he said, “You know me better than that, Bo. It will just be me and Tom Harvey.” I said, “OK, Ill bring this stuff dear citizen. I’ll show it to you then you Continued on page 66 34°NEXUS AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1992