07-01-2011, 04:05 PM
Quote:"He'll be remembered as a great general, a great warrior, a great Hmong soldier," his friend Charlie Waters told AFP news agency.
He should also be remembered as a great heroin exporter too - with his own CIA backed "lab" at Long Tieng, where Air America picked up his "product" and flew it to Saigon, where it became, I believe, part of Colby's "long silver train" -- an euphemism for the GI bodies returned to the US in silver caskets, where their bodily organs had been eviscerated and replaced with packets of pure No. 4 chinese white heroin.
According to McCoy, Vang was the mastermind behind the famous "French Connection"
Also, funds from the "Vang Po Opium Fund" were carried out in suitcases to Australia by Shackley, Clines and Armitage and deposited in banks there. Probably just one bank, Nugan Hand
A very profitable exercise for all concerned.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14