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- From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo)
- Subject: Part 2, U.S. Government Smuggles Heroin Inside Corpses of U.S. Soldiers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.140710.24480@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX!
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:07:10 GMT
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- I made the following transcript from a tape recording
- of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
- WBAI-FM (99.5)
- 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
- New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707
-
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- (continuation)
- PAUL DeRIENZO:
- How did you wind up doing these foreign operations?
-
- MICHAEL LEVINE:
- Well, I began working undercover in Southeast Asia in 1970 and `71.
- Just being really good at what I do, I was asked to do different
- assignments.
-
- PAUL DeRIENZO:
- I spoke to Alfred McCoy, and he mentioned that he talked to you
- afterwards and told you about his book, and that that book
- influenced the way you thought about the work you were doing in
- Southeast Asia.
-
- [JD: "THE POLITICS OF HEROIN IN SOUTHEAST ASIA", by Alfred McCoy,
- has been the bible on U.S. drug trafficking. However, I understand
- that its sequel, "THE POLITICS OF HEROIN: C.I.A. COMPLICITY IN
- THE GLOBAL DRUG TRADE" is even better.]
-
- MICHAEL LEVINE:
- Well, what happened was, the first time that I ran into CIA and
- other U.S. influences in this "War on Drugs" was on an undercover
- case that I did into Bangkok, Thailand in 1971, going into 1972.
- There's no way I can tell you the whole story, but let it end with
- this: I successfully conned the hell out of Chinese drug dealers
- who were also the source of an investigation of drug dealers on a
- case titled, "the Herman Jackson Organization." In essence, Herman
- Jackson and a bunch of G.I.s from Vietnam were buying heroin in
- Thailand and putting the heroin into dead bodies of G.I.s killed
- in Vietnam, and the bodies were being funneled through Thailand and
- then home to the United States. And they were using the bodies of
- our 19- and 20-year-old young men, killed in that "holy war", as
- conduits for heroin.
-
- Now, at that time, young Michael Levine, young undercover agent --
- I'm dealing with the same people who are supplying that [Herman
- Jackson] group. The Chinese drug dealers, who really bought my act,
- wanted to invite me to a laboratory in Chang Mai where they were
- producing hundreds of kilos. Now, this was at a time in our history
- when the biggest heroin seizure was "the French Connection",
- sixty-five or sixty-seven kilos of heroin. Now here are people
- inviting me to a factory that produces hundreds of kilos of
- heroin A WEEK!
-
- Mysteriously -- strangely, I was instructed that:
- "You're not going!" The case was ended right at the point I had
- gone to; that is, at the Chinese dealers in Bangkok itself. Arrests
- were made. A lot of publicity. The United States Government told
- the American Public: "Another great Drug War victory." I was told:
- "There are a lot of things you don't understand. You see, there
- are priorities." And, of course, I accepted that because I was,
- again, the "GOOD soldier".
-
- Now, Al McCoy's book came out around the same time. Now -- when I
- look back, when I talk about Al McCoy's book and my experience,
- what I point out is that even if I had Al McCoy's book in my hands
- in 1971 and `72 -- a book that pointed out CLEARLY why I was not
- allowed to go to Chang Mai .... WHAT an incredible thing that is to
- accept! That my OWN government could protect people who were using
- our DEAD G.I.s -- dead young Americans as heroin conduits!
- HOW could I accept that?! It was just too MUCH!
- What can I give you as a comparison? It's a man who's been married
- to a wife who doted on him for twenty years (well, at that point in
- my career it was seven or eight years) whose fidelity he never
- questioned; and then suddenly coming in and finding her in bed with,
- not just the postman, but the postman, the butcher, the dogcatcher,
- ..... It's just too much for you to accept as real. Had I had
- Al McCoy's book in my hands, I would've considered it an Un-AMERICAN
- thing to read. That's why I can UNDERSTAND what happens to young
- men who are in law enforcement -- why they refuse to look at the
- reality of this situation. It's just TOO MUCH for Americans to
- accept. It's too much for young narcotics agents to accept.
- You don't TAKE a job like this for civil service security.
- You take it because you BELIEVE in it! And most of these guys DO.
- And then, when these events happen, and they're told: "This is a
- priority that you don't understand. You just go ahead about your
- business" .... and when they see, around them, things like Oliver
- North, who ..... It's really funny; he's got a book out. I don't
- even want to say the title -- but I looked in the index and he's
- got three pages devoted to drug trafficking; yet, in his OWN
- notebooks (he's got twenty-six-hundred-page notebooks) he's got
- FIVE HUNDRED pages of NOTATIONS about drug trafficking. There's
- something he's not TELLING us. You know? So, when young agents
- see things like this .... when young agents see that people like
- Oliver North and Lewis Tams were banned from Costa Rica for DRUG
- running, it's HARD for them to accept. They consider this like:
- "Well this is a plot. We don't want to believe this."
- Because, to accept it and to believe it is to accept that your
- career is a LIE! Your chosen goal in life is a total lie.
- (to be continued)
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
- As you can see, this story is one of the most
- appalling, infuriating, explosive and vital expose`s that
- could ever be brought before the eyes of the American People.
- Don't let these episodes go by the boards without saving them,
- because we have a patriotic duty to disseminate, circulate,
- deliver, pass on this information in the cause of millions of
- people on the American Continent, including those in the
- United States, who are or who will become victims of the
- CIA-sponsored War FOR Drugs which is resulting in wholesale,
- continent-wide murder, torture, imprisonment, street crime,
- life-destroying addiction, and even the takeover of governments
- by fascist drug barons, further intensifying the poverty, misery
- and suffering that is rampant among entire national populations.
-
- Please post the episodes of this series to computer bulletin
- boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and
- off campus. The dial-in numbers of many BBSs can be found
- in the Usenet newsgroup "alt.bbs.lists".
-
- John DiNardo
-
-