Title: The secret army
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.
Subjects: Drug traffic, History, China, politics and government
Places: Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia), Burma, China
People: Kai-shek Chiang (1887-1975)
Time periods: 1948-, 1949-1976