The secret army
Subtitle: Chiang Kai-shek and the drug warlords of the golden triangle
By: Richard M. Gibson with Wenhua Chen
Contributors: Chen, Wenhua
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Asia)
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Singapore; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780470830185
Subjects: Drug traffic; History
Description: "Based on recently declassified government documents, this book reveals the shocking true story of what happened after the Chinese Nationalists lost the revolution. Supported by Taiwan, the CIA, and the Thai government, the Koumintang reinvented itself as an anti-communist mercenary army fighting into the 1980s, before eventually becoming the drug lords who would make the Golden Triangle a household name."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: two young Chinese soldiers; title: Retreat from Yunnan; title: Sorting things out in Tachilek; title: Lieutenant General Li Mi; title: Li Mi and his American friends; title: Li Mi's Yunnan Anticommunist National Salvation Army; title: Attacking Yunnan; title: Washington opts out; title: Li Mi's army aettles into Burma; title: Washington cuts its losses; title: Southern strategy and Karen allies; title: The road to the United Nations; title: The United Nations vs. KMT duplicity; title: First evacuation from Burma; title: Liu Yuan-lin's Yunnan Anticommunist volunteer army; title: A resurgent KMT; title: Operation Mekong: Sino-Burmese forces rout the KMT; title: Air battle over Burma and American weapons; title: The second KMT evacuation; title: Removing KMT remnants from Laos; title: Nationalist Chinese armies in Thailand; title: Thailand's troublesome guests; title: Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense; title: Resettlement in Thailand; title: Soldiering on for Thailand; title: Postscript.