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Ep. 292 | Olive Yang

The China History Podcast

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The Golden Triangle and the War on Drugs

The golden triangle narcotics industrial complex received a once in a lifetime shot in the arm, so to speak. The first of the major drug lords who emerged from all this was another ko kong chinese named loshing han. He got his start working part of olive yong's organization, rising up to become her deputy. So these renegade k m t troops who fled across the unnon border indto burma and got into the drug business,. at first to fund their anti p r c activities, and which later got coopted by the c i a. They have been trying to stop this runaway train ever since.

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