Chapter 61: The CIA's Lancang Secret War
"What do you usually do in the cave?" Lin Zhumin continued the training.
"I didn't ...... Nothing to do, watch the outside of the cave, or just drink, gamble, watch movies, play...... Playing with women ......"
"There was a B52 plane crash here two years ago, what's going on?"
"We were all just sent here from Siam this year, and we heard that the C130 had crashed in the airdrop before, not the B52. Now, every once in a while, Cook would send a telegram asking for the Siam Air Line M to airdrop supplies, and it seemed that we were fighting very nervously. β
"What's the airdrop? Where is the airdrop? β
"Everything was airdropped, from money, rice, guns and ammunition, clothing to cigarettes, chocolates, condoms, gum, Playboy...... The drop site is the valley at the bottom of the mountain. After the airdrop, we transported the things into the cave through the gate below. When the rainy season comes, there will be many small boats that come here at night to collect supplies and transport them to various strongholds in the dense forests of northern Lancang. β
"The gate down there? Where is it? β
"It's in the river, it's a big deep cave, and the gate is usually closed, so you can't see it from the valley outside......"
"What about the other two white men who were killed, were they also CIA people?"
"Not really. They were also all mercenaries, a Frenchman, a national M, and they were also hired by Cook from South Africa at his expense. They were all guerrilla warfare advisers to the White Star Force on the surface, but in essence they were instructors. Cook They have the funds and supplies, and without them, the scattered Miao people in the mountains would run out of ammunition and food. β
"What's in this cave? What is the structure? β
"This is a big karst cave, very big, and it is also a permanent underground base that can be guarded for a long time. Inside is also a secret fortress, warehouse, and factory. It was built by the French and Japanese, and later "Colonel Billy", a native of country M, used this place as the headquarters of the White Star Army. β
"What factory?"
"I only know that it used to be heroin and opium processing factories, I know so much, I tell you all, I am also poor, please spare me!" In order to save his life, Miao Lao did not hide it at all, and told the situation of this base from beginning to end.
The interrogation was over, and Lin Zhumin tied up the two captives. Then they were taken to the middle of the courtyard, tied to a thick wooden post where clothes were dried, and had Hu Shibing arrange for two hunters to watch.
The Miao people in the Miao village already knew that they were saved. Some women and children were watching the two captives from a distance. The bold children also hit them with stones, but they were stopped by Hu Shibing.
Hu Shixiong and Hu Shibing came back, and Hu Shixiong's wife and daughter came out and cleaned up the bamboo building. Hu Shixiong brewed wild camellia and entertained the three.
"The captives said that there were only four white people under the cave. Under the cave, there are seven more people. These, are they true? Yu Songyuan asked Hu Shixiong.
"The white people all look the same, with big beards, big noses, blue eyes, height and long legs, we can't tell the difference, we can't be sure it's four people. Miao Lao once came out to hunt, and five people came out at one time. I can't say how many people there are, but I feel like there are more than six or seven people. Hu Shixiong shook his head and said.
Yu Songyuan was thinking about how to act next, and one morning, a bison hunting carnival was so smoothly wiped out the four backbone elements of the White Star Army. It made him feel a little empty, it didn't feel real, it didn't seem like something was right.
How can whites rule Indochina for one or two hundred years be so easy to deal with?
The CIA of country M used to use this as the core to organize Miao special forces to participate in the Second Indochina War. After the war, it took this place as the core to carry out the peaceful evolution of the whole of Southeast Asia. How could such an important and secret stronghold be so easy to obtain?
These historical traces, they were deeply rooted in their hearts as early as the beginning of their entry into the Indochina Peninsula.
From the late 18th century to the early 20th century, the Western colonial powers completed the activities of dividing up territories in Southeast Asia and established a perfect colonial system. The Anglo-Dutch East India Company was abolished by its own government in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and governors were established in various places to exercise direct government jurisdiction.
Honsawaddy began in 1886 as a British colony under the British Viceroy of India. In 1863, the Kingdom of Angkor was also forced to accept French "protection". In 1883~1884, the northern and central parts of Annam were also forced to accept the "protection" of France. In 1893, the Lancang Kingdom was occupied by France, and in 1897~1902, together with the Khmer, it formed a federation of French Indochina across three countries, which was governed by the Viceroyalty of French Indochina.
During World War II, Southeast Asia was occupied by Japanese troops.
After the war, Southeast Asian countries gained independence one after another. After Japan's surrender, in order to gain control of the entire territory of Annam, the Democratic Republic of Annam and France fought a bloody war that lasted for nine years, known as the First Indochina War. In 1954, with the military assistance of China, the Angolan Communist Party won a decisive victory over the French army in the Battle of Mengtianfu, and the French were forced to withdraw from northern Annam.
At the Geneva Conference held in 1954, a resolution was formed under the wrestling of the two countries, M and the Northern Bear. North and South Annam were temporarily divided under the 17th parallel, North Vietnam was ruled by Ho Chi Minh, and South Vietnam was under the control of Emperor Bao Dai. In 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem staged a coup d'Γ©tat in Saigon and established the Republic of Annam.
In order to resist the continued spread of world communism in South Asia, President Eisenhower of country M began to assist Annan in the south and Jiaozhi, and with the instigation and support of country M, the Second Annam War (1961-1975) broke out, known as the Second Indochina War.
After President John F. Kennedy came to power, out of the needs of the Cold War between Country M and the Polar Bear, he began to directly send troops to support South Vietnam's war. After Johnson, the president of country M, came to power, he expanded the war to the point of no control.
During the war, Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Cong who wanted to unify Annam, supported the guerrilla "National Liberation Front" in the south on a large scale through the famous Ho Chi Minh Trail against the government of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam. The "National Liberation Front", with the support of the North Vietnamese army, grew stronger and stronger.
In order to crack down on the Viet Cong and completely destroy the "Ho Chi Minh Trail", the president of country M was Eisenhower who acquiesced to the CIA of country M to launch a limited military operation in the north and south of Annam, while the presidents of country M, Kennedy and Johnson, directly supported the CIA of country M to start organizing the famous "Lancang secret war" in Lancang. β
Before the "Lancang Secret War" came to the stage of history, the CIA of country M was a purely military intelligence organization. On September 18, 1947, the most open and evil intelligence organization in the world, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of country M, was officially born.
But at the beginning of its birth, the CIA of country M was a very embarrassing agency.
In 1947, President Truman approved the National Security Act of 1947, which stipulated that the CIA was the only independent intelligence agency in the intelligence system of the National Security Department, but it had to meet the requirement that "there is no police, subpoena, or law enforcement force or internal security duties."
To put it bluntly, this huge intelligence agency must be guaranteed to be a non-military organization. The main task is to openly and covertly collect and analyze information on foreign governments, companies, terrorist organizations, individuals, politics, culture, science and technology, coordinate the activities of other domestic intelligence agencies, and report this information to various departments of the government of country M.
It was the Second Indochina War between country M and Annam that changed the embarrassing fate of the CIA's "unarmed group" in country M. Under the direct authorization of the president of country M, the CIA directly organized the "Lancang Secret War" that shocked the world throughout the war.
The CIA itself, as a result of this action, has made a magnificent turnaround, from an "unarmed organization" under the law to a real military intelligence organization that has changed the world's attention.
From the day of the outbreak of the "Lancang Secret War", the CIA of country M officially became one of the "four major intelligence organizations in the world" along with British MI6, the KGB of the polar bears and the Israeli Mossad. It can be said that without the "Lancang Secret War", there would be no CIA of country M, which is famous today.
At the end of 1960, CIA agent "Colonel Billy" infiltrated the jungle area of Lancang Kingdom to find Wang Bao, a Miao military leader. After many twists and turns, "Colonel Billy" finally found him. Since then, the CIA of country M has begun to fully arm the Miao special forces, and the number of this force headed by Wang Bao once reached nearly 40,000.
In the Second Indochina War between the entire country M and Annam, Wang Bao's Miao special forces took the dragon town of Lancang as the core, and launched a bloody war against the Angolan communist army and Pathet Liao in Lancang, centering on the destruction of the famous Ho Chi Minh Trail. During this period, one-tenth of the Miao men in Lancang were killed in this war, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail was also called the "meat grinder".
The CIA of country M also organized the "White Star" guerrillas to operate in the rear of Batlao and in the nearby mountains. Bags of rice delivered by air to designated locations also contained weapons and ammunition. The airlift was also accompanied by air strikes, with about 40 bombers propelled by propellers painted with the Lancang Air Force logo, piloted by pilots of C.I.A.A.-RUN AIRLINES, and aided by trained Siamese personnel.
In addition, the CIA also recruited hill ethnic groups from southern Lancang to form a "Smart Ghost Guerrilla Force" (also known as the "Smart Ghost Operation") to infiltrate the area along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to fight. After 1963, a number of special infiltration teams, mainly CIA agents, were sent from South Vietnam by various means into Lancang.
In this cruel war that lasted for many years, whether it was the Western bloc led by country M or the Miao military strongman Wang Bao, in order to support the operation of the huge war machine and carry out one military operation after another, there was a magic weapon to accumulate money, that is, opium production on the Indochina Peninsula.