Question: What did the USarmy seargant and convicted drug trafficker that was believed to have been a major figure in smuggling heroin into the United States from Southeast Asia from about 1968 to 1975 deny about Frank Lucas?

Context articles: Ike Atkinson
Frank Lucas (drug dealer)
Andrew Chan
Eamon Kelly (criminal)
Randy Lanier
Michael Showers
Eduardo Arellano Félix
Haji Bagcho
Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía
&quot;Freeway&quot; Rick Ross

Leslie "Ike" Atkinson (November 19, 1925 – November 11, 2014) was a US Army master sergeant and convicted drug trafficker, believed to have been a major figure in smuggling heroin into the United States from Southeast Asia from about 1968 to 1975.
Frank Lucas (born September 9, 1930) is an American former drug trafficker, who operated in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
 He was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle.
 Lucas boasted that he smuggled heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen, but this claim is denied by his South East Asian associate, Leslie "Ike" Atkinson.
 Rather than hide the drugs in the coffins, they were hidden in the pallets underneath as depicted in the 2007 feature film "American Gangster" in which he was played by Denzel Washington, although the film fictionalized elements of Lucas' life for dramatic effect.
Andrew Chan (; 12 January 1984 – 29 April 2015) was an Australian drug smuggler who was convicted and executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine.
 In 2005, Chan was arrested at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar.
 According to court testimonies of convicted drug mules, Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were the co-ringleaders of the heroin smuggling operation from Indonesia to Australia.
 After a criminal trial on 14 February 2006, Chan was sentenced to execution by firing squad by the Denpasar District Court.
Eamon Kelly (1947 – 4 December 2012) was a high-profile Irish convicted drug trafficker and former crime leader.
 Back in the 1980s, he was an Irish Republican Army member.
 Born in Dublin, he mentored another crime lord named Eamon Dunne who was murdered in 2010.
Randy Thomas Lanier (born 22 September 1954) is a professional race car driver and convicted drug trafficker from the United States.
 He is notable for winning the 1984 IMSA Camel GT title as a wholly independent team, despite facing up to well funded and supported oppositions and the team's questionable source of income.
Michael Showers (born 14 July 1945) is a convicted drug dealer from Liverpool.
 In 2010, he was arrested in Turkey by a joint operation by the Turkish Police and the British Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the drugs baron was reprimanded after being linked to alleged heroin smuggling.
 Showers has since been released.
 Showers is the father to 8 children
Eduardo Arellano Félix (born October 11, 1956) is a Mexican drug trafficker, brother of Benjamín, Ramón, Javier and sister Enedina, all drug traffickers.
 The Arellano-Félix Organization, also known as the Tijuana Cartel, has been responsible for countless murders and the smuggling of thousands of tons of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine for more than a decade.
 The DEA believes that the Arellano-Félix brothers were responsible for the numerous smuggling tunnels that were found in January 2006.
Hajji Bagcho Sherzai, also known as "Haji Bagh Chagul" or "Haji Bagcho" (born 1954), is a convicted drug trafficker from Afghanistan who is currently serving a life sentence in U.S. Federal prison.
 He is accused by the United States for having ties with the Taliban.
 He was convicted on March 13, 2012, by a jury in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of conspiracy, distribution of heroin for importation into the United States and narco-terrorism.
Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía (Alias "Chupeta") (born February 16, 1963 in Palmira, Colombia) is a drug trafficker who, until his capture, was one of the leaders of the North Valley Cartel (Norte del Valle Cartel), who was wanted on drug smuggling, murder and RICO charges in the United States of America.
 In addition to the trafficking of cocaine, it is believed Abadia also participated in money laundering and trafficking of heroin.
 Through Abadias' illegal enterprise, he has amassed a fortune estimated at $1.8 billion by the US Department of State.
 He has been cited as "... one of the most powerful and most elusive drug traffickers in Colombia" by Adam J. Szubin, Director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Ricky Donnell "Freeway Rick" Ross (born January 26, 1960) is an American author and convicted drug trafficker best known for the drug empire he established in Los Angeles, California, in the early to mid 1980s.
 He was sentenced to life in prison, though the sentence was shortened on appeal and Ross was released in 2009.