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Witness Charges Saigon Figures In Opium Trade
A Senate hearing heard Alfred W. McCoy accuse South Vietnam's president former vice president and prime minister of running a divided opium and heroin network. He linked Corsican gangsters and a Florida crime family to Saigon officials, with heroin routed via Vientiane and Saigon using South Vietnamese aircraft. U S officials pledged to review the charges, while McCoy offered documentation and asserted his findings are factual.
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Lawrence L. Knutson
Associated Press
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South Vietnam
Senate
Alfred W. McCoy
Florida
Laos
Cambodia
Thailand
McCoy
Yale University
Senate Appropriations Committee
Subcommittee On Foreign Operations
United States
Obhina
Europe
Southeast Asia
Vietnam
State Department
John King
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Tran van Khiem
Nguyen Thieu
Vientiane
Pakse
Phnom Penh
Fifth Air Division
Saigon
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Hieng
Duane Rathbone
Royal Laotian
Rattikone
Vang Pao
CIA
Thieu
Oas
Indochina
G. McMurtrie Godley
U.S
U.S. Bureau of Narcotics
Air America
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Subcommittee
Gale W. McGee
D-Wyo
U.S. Military Assistance Command
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Crime Syndicate
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