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Levine har skrevet flere bøker om opplevelsene sine fra tiden i DEA, og var allerede
kjent med CIAs involvering i narkotikahandlen. I boka hans Deep Cover, forteller han dette
om en opplevelse man kan sette i sammenheng med Kirkconnells beretning:
”The Chang Mai factory the CIA prevented me from destroying was the source of massive
amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and body bags of GIs killed in
Vietnam. My unit, the Hard Narcotics Smuggling Squad, was charged with investigating all
heroin and cocaine smuggling through the Port of New York. My unit became involved in
investigating every major smuggling operation known to law enforcement. We could not
avoid witnessing the CIA protecting major drug dealers. Not a single important source in
Southeast Asia was ever indicted by US law enforcement. This was no accident. Case after
case was killed by CIA and State Department intervention and there wasn’t a damned thing
we could do about it. CIA-owned airlines like Air America were being used to ferry drugs
throughout Southeast Asia, allegedly to support our ‘allies’. CIA banking operations were
used to launder drug money.” Michael Levine, Deep Cover, 1990, s 165-66. (visstnok) Funnet
på nettet.
341 En interessant fotnote her, er at Anna Chennault (kona til Claire Chennault) hjalp Nixon å
forlenge Vietnamkrigen, samt og vinne det amerikanske presidentvalget. Hun gjorde det ved
å overtale Sør Vietnams President Thieu til å gå imot President Johnsons annonserte
fredsforhandlinger rett før valget i 1968. Dette forlenget Air Americas kontrakter i regionen,
og forlenget også Kuomintangsoldatenes profittmuligheter i heroinhandlen. For mer om
dette se Anthony Summers, The Arrogance of Power; the secret world of Richard Nixon
(Phoenix Press 2003) s 298-306,322).
342 Peter Dale Scott & Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics; Drugs, Armies and the CIA in
Central America (University of California Press, 1998), s xvii
343 Alfred W McCoy, The Politics of Heroin; CIA complicity in the global drug trade (Lawrence
Hill Books 1991), s 281
344 Den amerikanske ambassadøren til Laos, G. McMurtrie Godley, brukte blant annet (i et
brev fra desember 1970) FBNs fiktive statistikker som unnskyldning for å marginalisere
oppmerksomheten rundt den storstilte opiumsprodiksjonen i landet, som CIAs leiesoldater
kontrollerte. Han var også imot at BNDD (FBNs etterfølger) etablerte seg i Laos. Alfred W
McCoy, The Politics of Heroin; CIA complicity in the global drug trade (Lawrence Hill Books
1991), s 304, 381.
345 Alfred W McCoy, The Politics of Heroin; CIA complicity in the global drug trade (Lawrence
Hill Books 1991), s 162.
346 Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf (Verso 2004), s 432
460