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DRUGS, Inc. Continued from page 34 Lance Trimmer, a former Green Beret approved by the Central Intelligence Agency, approved by the Central Intelligence Agency, which didn’t work then and aren’t working now. If these assasinations programs spread from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand to Iran, to Nicaragua, to Libya and have the potential of continuing to spread unless some exposure is finally done to eliminate these high officials. H. Ross Perot has said as a result of his investigation he has found a, “snake pit without a bottom.” He says that the people involved will do anything to keep their . wrong doings covered up. He even says that a man that was responsible for the Phoenix assasination program is now on the personal staff of George Bush. [Narrator introducing Barry Flinn) “Barry Flinn is the Bangkok station chief for Operation Lazarus. In May of 1987 he served as the cameraman with Colonel Gritz on his second trip to visit Khun Sa. Also during this time he has made other trips into ShanLand. On one occasion he accompanied a journalist from Australia who filmed the proceed- ings and made this the subject of a news program in Australia." [Cut to Barry Flinn in Bangkok discussing his trip with Bo] “My name is Barry Flinn and | live in Bangkok, Thailand. | have been in Lance Trimmer, a former Green Beret communications specialist with the Lazarus team, accompanied Gritz to Burma in Weekly’s place in May, 1987 where he witnessed Khun Sa naming the US officials involved in drug trafficking. As a professional private investigator, since returning he oe speatheaded the effort to document and publicise the team’s findings and was instrumental in obtaining Scott Weekly's release from Long Poke Federal Prison. In the process he has been unjustifiably arrested and detained three times by the police and federal authorities." [Bo talks about Khun Sa’s offer] 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.” [Bo talking in Southeast Asian Field] There are personalities within the United States Government who have, as early as the early 1960's, trafficked in opium and heroin to finance assasination programs initially If they had tried to put pressure by causing Scott Weekly even to be judged guilty ... because he was told if he would plead guilty that there would be no problem... that he would be given probation... that there would be no more pursuit... that it would be unsuper- vised probation which would allow him to continue to travel overseas. In truth, he was sentenced. The fact is that Scott was told that if he would plead guilty that there would be no further investigation and that all would go well for him and that if he did not plead guilty there would be a tether put on all of us so that we would not be able to travel and at that time we were very very close to negotiating the release of American prisoners of war. The only rea- son that Scott pleaded guilty was so that other members of the Operation Lazarus team, myself included, would be free to continue the mission of liberating US prisoners of war, which is ongoing now. {Narrator discussing Weekly’s case] "Scott Weekly was made to serve four- teen months of a five year sentence before it was demonstrated that the agents had removed sensitive documents from his pre-sentencing file which would have exonerated him." "The sentence was simply dismissed. 66eNEXUS ——__ —_———— OO ————— ss ——— ——— | AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1992