Chapter 22: The Evil White Man
The "White Star Mobile Training Group" was later renamed the "White Star Guerrillas" (or "White Star Force"), which directly led and organized guerrilla warfare in the primeval jungle of Shangliao. And this base at the foot of the Prei Mountain has officially become the lair of the "White Star". Within this underground base, Shirahoshi has a special team responsible for analyzing the Indochina shape shì, which is regularly submitted to the Langley headquarters as a basis for decision-making.
In 1973, a ceasefire agreement in Indochina was signed in Paris. In accordance with the terms of the treaty, a complete ceasefire in Indochina was held at 12 o'clock on 22 February. On that day, more than 300 members of the "White Star Guerrillas" evacuated Lancang by military aircraft and moved to the Ubon military airfield in Siam. Due to the haste of the operation, only a small team of 12 agents, and more than 100 Miao "special forces" soldiers, concealed and held in the underground base under the Puri Mountain.
They were completely cut off from the outside world, and the Annan army and the Lancang government did not know that they were hiding here. If exposed, they will claim immunity in the name of "USAID personnel of Country M." A large amount of information was also not destroyed, and the CIA has fully realized that although the M Army in the Vietnam War was defeated, the "secret war" with communism is far from over.
The ill-fated Miao people have entered an even more difficult period. After the signing of the Vientiane Peace Agreement in December 1973, about 18,000 Hmong soldiers were demobilized, and the rest were integrated into the regular army in 1974. On May 14, 1974, Wang Bao left Lancang by helicopter and entered the Ubon Ratchathani Army Air Base in Siam.
After Wang Bao left, the trees fell and scattered, and the once-famous "Miao Special Forces" drifted away with the wind in an instant. More than 100,000 Miao people entered Siam as refugees, and only 50,000 of them followed Wang Bao and were able to immigrate to country M.
Pathliao then conquered Longzhen, and the Miao "special forces" were disarmed and put into a re-education camp in the Shigang Plain, and then sent to Nonghei, a traditional Miao living area. Convinced that they would not "confess their sins," food rations were cut and many died of malnutrition and hard labor.
Thousands of Miao did not choose to flee, but retreated to the Pulei Mountains, the highest in Lancang. There are tens of thousands of thunderstorms a year, and almost all of them are former warriors, scattered and hidden in dense forests, constantly ambushing government and Annam troops who come to clear them.
Four years later, in order to lead the guerrilla war in the Shangliao jungle of Lancang, the CIA's Southeast Asia headquarters in Udong, Siam, made the decision to return to the Lancang jungle again. As a result, Bluewater sent a Cook team, with the cooperation of the CIA's Vientiane Intelligence Station, in the name of "Country M's Agency for International Development", to secretly cross the Mekong River again and enter Lancang.
When Xu Tianyi was explaining his questions, Yingya had already taken a cursory look at the "account books" in each cabinet.
"God, the French, the M, the Japanese, and Wang Bao, whoever rules Lancang will make and sell drugs, and the evidence is ironclad. Although the French and the M are all in the name of private companies and even airlines, they ...... These Western countries are really evil from the inside. Yingya was already indignant.
Xu Tianyi said, "This is their true face, they are the ones who colonize and plunder everywhere, and they are the ones who kill the natives everywhere." In this world, where there is no peace, there must be Westerners. It is a pity that many people in the third world countries do not recognize their faces and voluntarily fight proxy wars for them, which is pitiful and lamentable! ”
Yu Songyuan also picked up the "account book" and looked at it, "What are you talking about, is it possible that the CIA also sells drugs?" It's a shocking secret! ”
"Cut, it's not just the CIA, all the powers that have occupied this place, they do this. These records and analysis reports are ironclad evidence! What they have been secretly engaged in for a long time is an 'opium war' with no end in sight! Yingya said angrily.
"Yingya is right, the drug trade is indeed the most important way to make money when the French and the people of country M are engaged in secret wars! In fact, this information is clear to China's intelligence community. As soon as Xu Tian looked at their puzzled expressions, he talked about the "secrets" that the mortal world could not know.
At the end of World War I, the Strategic Intelligence Bureau of Country M activated and supported the mafia in Sicily, Italy, to fight against German and Italian fascism. The mafia was revived, and the drug trade flourished, selling well in Europe and the United States. After the end of the war, the Strategic Intelligence Service of Country M and the Italian mafia worked closely together on the drug trade, and both sides were "deeply satisfied" with this.
War fosters drugs, and drugs drive war. The CIA, which was born from the Strategic Intelligence Bureau, has since formed a fate with the "Opium War". From Indochina to the Shan Islamic Republic to Nicaragua, opium began in Thailand with the CIA's secret wars, and it became out of control.
At the end of the 40s, the French intelligence agencies took in the gang associations in Indochina, including pirates in the Pingsui area of Annam and the Hmong who cultivated opium in the Lancang Mountains. The genius of Westerners is that they can package the most evil things in a high-sounding and beautiful coat.
France found a fitting excuse for itself to engage in the drug trade in Indochina, namely this "social robbery, which ultimately benefits the French cause". "If we refuse to help the Hmong solve their economic problems, it will push them into the camp of the enemy, and the Viet Cong side will certainly not hesitate to buy these opiums and use these 'hard currencies' for foreign markets."
From the late '40s to the mid-'50s, a mixed contingent of French airlifts negotiated opium from the spring harvest in Lancang and flew it to a secret site near the Saint-Jacques promontory in Annam. It was the base of France's Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence Service, which stored thousands of tons of opium.
On the trail leading from here to the Pingsuian Headquarters in Pheasant City, high-speed trucks transported opium to two large opium-making factories in Pingsuian. There, they processed the raw juice of the poppy into opium, which was distributed by the mafia to the pheasant sticks and various shops and tobacco houses on the embankment, and Pingsui An shared the fruits with the French.
At the same time, Ping Suian also sold opium to triad organizations in Hong Kong and Corsica, France. The French were involved in the drug trade and obtained a large amount of money to support and control the anti-communist forces of the Lancang and Miao ethnic groups. It was the most comfortable time for the French in Southeast Asia.
The good times did not last long, and the fragrance of drugs and super profits soon attracted the attention of the people of M who had a keen sense of smell. In 1954, Colonel Lansdale of the CIA smelled the fragrance and persuaded the Navy of Army M to use the Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf to cut off the opium trade route from the French to Marseille and transfer it all to the shores of Country M.
This act of robbery is extremely bad. But because opium was an illegal and secret trade, the French suffered a dumb loss, and they had to swallow their anger and share the profits with country M and the CIA.
Soon, CIA intelligence agents in Southeast Asia, through a secret investigation, gained hold of the French's more secretive drug processing locations. The secrets of the underground base under the Great Mount Pree were exposed to the CIA.
If it is said that country M meddled in Southeast Asian affairs only for the opium trade, I believe that not many people will believe it, and it is not completely in line with historical facts. However, the real history is that under the guise of waging a "secret war" against communism, the CIA did obtain a huge source of money through the secret opium trade.
In November 1954, a senior French intelligence officer pointed out in a top-secret report predicting the prospects of Indochina for the next 20 years that the CIA had intervened in the Lancang government and would take over the drug smuggling trade in Siam and Lancang in the next few years.
The official's prediction soon became a reality. Beginning in 1960, the CIA did take over all of the Miao anti-communist forces and their opium trade in Lancang. This is the world-famous "Golden Triangle" area, at the foot of the Pré Mountain, there is the world's most modern and large-scale drug processing plant, the CIA sits in it, can be described as a windfall.
Colby, the former director of the CIA, had said in a dignified manner that the CIA "forbade the carrying of drugs on the planes of State M Airlines, in short, without any connection with the opium business", but he had to admit that "this business certainly continued to exist among the Lancangs, especially among some leaders in Xialiao, and when it began to affect our troops in Annam, it became a serious problem."
In the face of the facts, Colby himself had to admit that the CIA had adopted a blind and blind attitude towards the Lancang drug trade, and said that it was "not involved." "But it is precisely because of the CIA's planes that the drug trade has become more convenient, more profitable, and the business has become more and more prosperous.
During the Vietnam War, heroin and morphine were rampant among the 500,000 U.S. troops stationed in Indochina. According to the estimation of the press of the M country in the 60s, about $100 million a year is spent on drugs by M soldiers. A military official from country M exclaimed, "At present, the biggest threat to the soldiers of country M is not the carbines of the Viet Cong, but the brand-name heroin from the Lancang jungle." ”
In the late 60s, the Congress of Country M sent a delegation to Lancang to investigate the drug problem, and the CIA's local agency received the investigation team with a "warm and rigorous" attitude. In the face of the investigation, the CIA could not justify itself and had to admit that "there were individuals involved in drug smuggling."
However, the sheer scale of drug smuggling is beyond the reach of a CIA "individual". Throughout the 60s, opium and heroin produced in the "Golden Triangle" were mainly transported and sold via the Siam and Hong Kong routes. From the point of view of distribution channels, drugs can only be transported through at least three local links of the CIA. To say that it was done by "individual personnel" can only be to cover it up.
The CIA's clandestine drug trade in Indochina has never been truly exposed. However, the "cocaine incident" that shocked the world has exposed the CIA's bad practices of drug cultivation, manufacturing, and trade in Central and South America.