British Troops Allegedly Transporting Heroin on Military Aircraft

[Jan Klimkowski]

I also saw that report Ed.

Shades of the CIA's "long silver train" of the Vietnam war era, when bodies of dead GI's were shipped home in silver caskets having had their internal organs eviscerated and replaced with x kilograms of pure No4 Chinese white.

Or am I getting confused with the shipment of Cocaine from South America into US military bases during the Reagan Administration?

Whoops, no. Both happened.

Not to be a contrarian, but this just showed up this evening:

Exploding the Myth of Heroin Cadavers



http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.co...-cadavers/

It'll take more than the literary efforts of "seasoned crime reporter and author Ron Chepesiuk" to discredit the history of deep black exploitation of the Golden Triangle by western intelligence agencies, as documented by Prof Alfred McCoy in his classic "The Politics of Heroin in South-East Asia", and subsequent work by such as the Cockburns and Peter Dale-Scott.

The updated version of McCoy's book is now entitled, quite correctly: "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia: CIA complicity in the global drug trade".

I note therearenosunglasses neglect to mention who Sgt Ike Atkinson was working for, although the review does throw some mud at "senior Thai officials" and dodgy Thai businessmen.

Fu Machu anyone?

Looks like a classic case of blaming the "gooks" and the mechanics.

Meanwhile, whilst the notion of heroin trafficking via GI cadaver is striking and shocking, the actual mechanism of smack transport is ultimately irrelevant.

Have the author and reviewer even heard of Nugan Hand?