From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 2, U.S. Government Smuggles Heroin Inside Corpses of U.S. Soldiers
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy 
Keywords:  U.S. Government Smuggles Heroin Inside Corpses of U.S. Soldiers
Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! 
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:07:10 GMT

        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

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                        (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)
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    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

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