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| Country | Laos is a Southeast Asian country that served as the theater for a secret CIA war and intelligence-connected drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle, where vault subjects Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, Michael Hand, and Bo Gritz all operated. |
Laos is a country in Southeast Asia. It is mentioned in connection with the clandestine Central Intelligence Agency war and drug trafficking activities in the Golden Triangle.1
Michael Hand, co-founder of Nugan Hand Bank and a highly decorated United States Army Special Forces soldier, moved to the clandestine Central Intelligence Agency war in Laos after his first stint in Vietnam, according to Ted Shackley, a former station chief in Indo-China.1
Bo Gritz staged several expeditions to Laos in search of missing POWs. During these expeditions, he reportedly stumbled upon a "massive drug network in Southeast Asia" that was intertwined with American POWs.1
Danny Casolaro was investigating Bo Gritz's expose of Central Intelligence Agency drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle and had requested to meet with a former police officer who had information on Laotian warlord Kuhn Sa's Golden Triangle drug trade proposal to the United States.1
Footnotes
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎