THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO- ROUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000400190001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 21, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Jack Anderson
The Washington er ry Go-Round
CIA Echoes-CIA agents ae-
cused of fostering the opium
traffic in Southeast Asia can
take consolation from a prec-
edent set 30 years ago in the
same area by the old Office of
Strategic Services. In a book
soon to be published, called
"The OSS in Work War II,"
author Edward Hymoif writes
that OSS agents parachuted
into Burma with silver coins
and opium to pay anti-Japa-
nese Kachin Irregulars. "H
there was any moral consider.
ations," writes Ilymoff, an ex-
OSS man himself, "they were
overcome by the realities of
war and military operations."
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Charles Knight, Alai-If Selden, Rod -Aya,
Henry Norr, and Mara. Thanks to all
j who helped, especially Jim Morrell, Tod
McKie, and Jancis Long.
study group supported by the Committee
of Concerned Asian Scholars. The' group
included Pat llaseltine, Jerry Aleldon,
This pamphlet was writteja'collectively. by a
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Second Edition COntinued
Anril 1972
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The American Medical Asso-
ciation, which predictably of-
fers few surprises at its an-
nual meeting, achieved the un-
expected this year,
As one entered the conven-
tion's exhibition hall in San
Francisco's Civic Center,
one's nostrils were assailed by
an odor more appropriate to
that city's Haight-Ashbury dis-
trict - an aroma strongly
suggestive of the burning
leaves and blossoms of the fe
male Cannabis sativa plant,
The scent fired the curiosity
of all in the hall who had ever
sampled J.n