{"id":356307,"date":"2023-05-31T19:40:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=356307"},"modified":"2023-05-31T01:51:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T05:51:14","slug":"cia-officers-admit-the-agency-ran-drug-trafficking-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/05\/cia-officers-admit-the-agency-ran-drug-trafficking-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Officers Admit the Agency Ran Drug Trafficking Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n (Covert Action Magazine)\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 In 1991, during the 1st<\/sup>\u00a0Persian Gulf War, investigative journalist Douglas Valentine traveled to Thailand and interviewed a group of legendary CIA officers who had helped run the secret war in Laos and other clandestine operations in the Indochina Wars.<\/p>\n Among them was Anthony Poshepny (aka Tony Poe), the prototype for Colonel Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s epic 1979 film\u00a0Apocalypse Now<\/em>\u2014a covert warrior who went off the deep end and established a secret jungle enclave where enemy body parts were displayed.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n Now 66, Poshepny lived at the time in a big, beautiful home in a fancy neighborhood in Udon Thani, Thailand, home of a major U.S. air base during the Indochina Wars used for carrying out secret bombing missions over Laos.<\/p>\n Poshepny owned a lumber and security consultant business and a sugar and tapioca farm; he was considered around town to be a friendly guy but a belligerent drunk.<\/p>\n Poshepny\u2019s father had been a naval officer and he had become desensitized to violence serving with the Marines in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.<\/p>\n During a meeting with Poshepny, who suffered from diabetes and cirrhosis from years of heavy drinking, Valentine noticed that he was missing two middle fingers. Poshepny also liked to tell obscene jokes.<\/p>\n He told Valentine that he was proud of things he had done with political implications, notably his involvement in a failed CIA coup against Indonesian socialist leader Sukarno in 1958, where he and CIA officer \u201cPat\u201d Landry supplied mutinous military forces in oil-rich Sumatra with M16s and thousands of rounds of ammunition. \u201cIt was an adventure,\u201d Poshepny said.<\/p>\n Poshepny, around the same time, told Valentine that he had created a guerrilla army in Thailand to try to destabilize Cambodia, which was then ruled by neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who was seen as too friendly to the North Vietnamese communists.<\/p>\n After Cambodia, Poshepny went on to Tibet, where he was awarded a coveted intelligence medal for his role in a CIA operation to support the Dalai Lama and recruit his supporters into a guerrilla army that waged war against the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC).<\/p>\n During the Korean War (1950-1953), Poshepny worked under station chief John Hart[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0in South Korea, training guerrillas and running operations up the eastern coast to the Soviet border near Vladivostok.<\/p>\n Subsequently, he was sent to Thailand with Hart\u2014whom a colleague described as a \u201cguy who has strong criminal tendencies\u2014but was too much of a coward to be one [a criminal].\u201d Poshepny worked under the cover of Sea Supply (a military contractor run by OSS veteran Willis Bird) with the Thai Border Patrol Police (BPP) in Chung Mai.<\/p>\n