C I A DOPE CALYPSO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000400170055-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2005
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: March 1, 1972
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

EARTH
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C I A DOPE CALYPSO-
by Allen Ginsberg (for Peter Dale Scott)
IN NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY SIX
CHINA WAS WON BY MAO TSE-TUNG
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S ARMY RAN AWAY
AND THEY'RE WAITING THERE IN THAILAND TODAY
SUPPORTED BY THE C I A
PUSHING JUNK DOWN THAILAI,, . -WAY
FIRST THEY STOLE FROM THE MEO TRIBES
UP IN THE.HILLS THEY STARTED TAKING BRIBES
THEN THEY SENT THEIR. 'SOLDIERS UP TO SHAN
COLLECTING OPIUM TO SELL TO THE MAN
THE WHOLE OPERATION FELL INTO CHAOS
TIL THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE CAME INTO LAOS
I'LL TELL YOU NO LIE I'LL SPREAD NO RUMOR
OUR BIG PUSHER THERE WAS SOUVANNA PHOUMA
THREE STRONG PRINCES IN A POWER PLAY
BUT PIIOUMA WAS THE MAN FOR THE C I A
TOUBY LYFONG HAD WORKED FOR THE FRENCH
BIG FAT MAN LIKED WINE AND WENCH
-PRINCE OF THE MEOS GREW BLACK MUD.
OPIUM FLOWED THROUGH THE LAND LIKE A FLOOD
PUSHING JUNK, IN BANGKOK TODAY
SUPPORTED BY THE C I A
BROUGHT THEIR JAM ON MULE TRAINS DOWN
TO CHIENG MAI THAT'S A RAILROAD TOWN
SOLD IT NEXT TO POLICE CHIEF BRAIN
Ht TOOK IT TO TOWN IN THE CHOOCHOO TRAIN
TRAFFICKING DOPE TO BANGKOK ALL DAY
SUPPORTED BY THE C I A
THE POLICEMAN'S NAME WAS MR. PHAO
HE PEDDLED DOPE GRAND SCALE AND HOW
CHIEF OF BORDER CUSTOMS PAID
BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE'S U.S. AID
THE WHOLE OPERATION NEWSPAPERS SAY
SUPPORTED BY THE C I A
HE GOT SO SLOPPY $ PEDDLED SO LOOSE
HE BUSTED HIMSELF & COOKED HIS GOOSE
TOOK THE REWARD FOR AN OPIUM LOAD
SEIZING HIS OWN HAUL WHICH SAME HE RESOLD
BIG TIME PUSHER A DECADE TURNED GREY
WORKING FOR THE C I A
COMMUNISTS'CAME AND CHASED THE-FRENCH AWAY
SO TOUBY TOOK A JOB WITH THE C I A
AND HIS BEST FRIEND GENERAL VANG PHAO
RAN OUR MEO ARMY LIKE A SACRED COW
HELICOPTER SMUGGLERS FILLED LONG TIENG'S BARS
IN XIENG QUANG PROVINCE ON THE PLAIN OF JARS
IT STARTED IN SECRET THEY WERE FIGHTING
YESTERDAY
CLANDESTINE SECRET ARMY OF THEC I A.
ALL THROUGH THE 'SIXTIES THE DOPE FLEW FREE
THRU TAN SON NHUT SAIGON TO MARSHALL KY
AIR AMERICA FOLLOWING THROUGH
TRANSPORTING CONFITURE FOR PRESIDENT THIEU
ALL THESE DEALERS WERE DECADES AND TODAY
THE INDOCHINESE MOB OF THE C I A
-- January 5, 1972
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