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Where Drug Pipeline Begins
An Associated Press dispatch profiles Ban Houei Sai in Laos as a major heroin and opium center linked to Vietnam. It describes a refinery, shipments across the Mekong, Meo growers, Chinese traders, and U.S. and Vietnamese intelligence noting the plant was burned but operations moved upriver to Ban Quang.
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Foll Wing Dispatch
Laos
Associated Press
Vietnam
Peter Arnett Dau
Bernard Gavzer
Ban Houet Sai
Mekong River
China
Burma
Thailand
Ban Houei Sai
Ban Houel Sai
Vientiane
Southeast Asia
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Thai
Vietnan
Amerie
Ban Honei Tap
Ban Houei Tap