HEROIN: SOME AMAZING LINKS BETWEEN THE CIA, THE MAFIA. CHINESE NATIONALIST OFFICERS --- AND A FEW BANKS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100470004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 4, 1972
• Content Type: PREL

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PRESS RELEASE ON-THE CONTENTS OF THE MARCH,' 1972 -ISSUE OF EAKI'H MAUALINh
MAFIA, CHINESE NATIONALIST OFFICERS,?
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AND A FEW BANKS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES
According to detailed evidence in-the March issue of EARTH magazine', the CIA
is involved in opium traffic from the "fertile triangle" in the border areas
of Laos, Burma, Thailand and the Yunnan province of southern China. About
.twenty-five percent of the heroin sold in America comes through this Southeast
Asian channel. Ironically, the American taxpayer foots a six billion dollar a
year bill for running the dope -- the CIA, an organization which answers to no-
body, is intricately involved in the flow of opium out of the Asian' hills and
into the?United-States. U.S. tax money started Air America, the largest airline
in Southeast Asia, used to supply and maintain opium growers, and also used for
smuggling opium out of the triangle to Saigon and Hong Kong. The CIA claims
other reasons for their huge operations, but as EARTH magazine points out in
Berkeley professor Peter Dale Scott's thorough article, the agency is party to
pushing dope around the world.
Scott's article,'supported by over 80 footnotes, is especially sobering in that
it reveals a set of international alliances ranging from Chiang Kai Shek's
.brother-in-law to members of the Royal Laotian family to Wall Street lawyers
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HEROIN: SOME AMAZING LINKS BETWEEN THE CIA,
Contact: H611y Reppert (415) 9S9-4300; Earth Magazine, The Agriculture Building, The Ernbarcadero at Mission, San Francisco, California 94115