RUSSIANS CHARGE CIA INVOLVED IN OPIUM TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000300010014-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 14, 1969
• Content Type: TRANS

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MARCH 14 1964
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WTOP RADIO
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RUSSIANS CHARGE CIA- INVOLVED IN OPIUM TRADE
ART CURLEY: In a big building in?nearby northern Virginia,
executives of the Central Intelligence Agency sit around brainstorm-
ing about how to deal with America's enemies., Theyave come up with
a new trick,, if Moscow sources can be believed. WTOP correspondent
Frank Taylor reports. (TAPE)
FRANK TAYLOR: The United States Central, Intelligence Agency
has been accused of many things in the past.. Today the Soviet Union
added something now to the list: growing opium in' collaboration
with Communist China. The charge came in the Soviet farming news-
paper (RUSSIAN NAME) and it said that the CIA has built up a profit-
able opium trade in the northern regions of Laos, Thailand, and Burma.
Supported by the CIA, bands of Nationalist Chinese-troops work the
opium poppy fields on the border of the Communist Chinese province
of Yunnan, said the-newspaper.
Then CIA planes flew the poppies out to American military bases
in the Far East. The opium was processed on Tiawan and in the Phil-i.,
ppines and then sold in Hong Kong and Macao. When internal trans-
portation was., recently. disrupted .inside Communist China, the CIA
offered to buy opium plants directly from the Chinese0 In this way,
said the newspaper, the CIA was able 'to 'swell its budget and the
Chinese could earn dollars. This is Frank Taylor in Moscow.
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