T.R.C. Thailand Revolutionary Council

Date. June 28, 1987

To:

U.S. Justice Department

Washington, D.C.

U.S.A.

Subject Important facts for the Drugs Eradication Program

to be successful.

Sirs:

This letter to the US Justice Department is to make it clear about our deepest concern in

wishing to help eradicate drugs and for all the American people as well as the world to know the

truth that for the past (15) years they have been misled to look upon us as the main source of all

the drug problems.

1. The refusal of the United States government to accept our "SIX YEARS DRUGS

ERADICATION PLAN" presented at the Congressional Hearing by Congressman Mr. Lester

Wolff after his visit to Thailand in April 1977, was really a great disappointment for us. Even

after this disappointment, we continued writing letters to President Carter and President Reagan

forwarding our sincere wish to help and participate in eradicating drugs. We are really surprise

and doubtful as to why the US government refuses our participation and help to make a success

of the drugs eradication program.

Furthermore, why the world has been misled to accuse me as the main culprit for all the

drug trades..... while in reality, we are most sincere and willing to help solve the drug problems

in South East Asia. Through our own secret investigation, we found out that some high officials

in the US government's drugs control and enforcement department and with the influence of

corrupted persons objected to our active participation in the drugs eradication program of the US

government so as to be able to retain their profitable self-interest from the continuation of the

drug problems. Thus, the US government and the American people as well as the world have

been hoodwinked.

2. During the period (1965 - 1975) CIA Chief in Laos, Theodore Shackley, was in the drug

business, having contacts with the Opium Warlord Lor Sing Han and his followers. Santo

Trafficante (sp) acted as his buying and transporting agent while Richard Armitage handled the

financial section with the Banks in Australia. Even after the Vietnam War ended, when Richard

Armitage was being posted to the US Embassy in Thailand, his dealings in the drug business

continued as before. He was then acting as the US government official concerning with the drug

problems in Southeast Asia. After 1979, Richard Armitage resigned from the US Embassy's

posting and set up the "Far East Trading Company" as a front for his continuation in the drug

trade and to bribe CIA agents in Laos and around the world. Soon after, Daniel Arnold was

made to handle the drug business as well as the transportation of arms sales. Jerry Daniels then

took over the drug trade from Richard Armitage. For over 10 years, Armitage supported his men

in Laos and Thailand with the profits from his drug trade and most of the cash were deposited

with the Banks in Australia which was to be used in buying his way for quicker promotions to

higher positions.

Within the month of July, 1980, Thailand's english newspaper "Bangkok Post" included a

news report that CIA agents were using Australia as a transit-base for their drug business and the

banks in Australia for depositing, transferring the large sum of money involved.

Verifications of the news report can be made by the US Justice Department with Bangkok

Post and in Australia.

Other facts given herewith have been drawn out from out Secret Reports files so as to

present to you of the real facts as to why the drug problem is being prolonged till today.

3. Finally, we sincerely hope in the nearest future to be given the opportunity to actively take

part in helping the US government, the Americans and people of the world in eradication and

uprooting the drug problems.

I remain,

Yours Respectively

Khun Sa

Vice Chairman

Thailand Revolutionary Council

(T.R.C.)

Lester Wolff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_L._Wolff

Lester Lionel Wolff (born January 4, 1919) is a former Democratic member of the United States House of

Representatives from New York.

Santo Trafficante, Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Trafficante,_Jr.

(November 15, 1914 – March 17, 1987) was one of the last of the old-time Mafia bosses in the United

States. He allegedly controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba, which had previously

been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante, Sr. Reputedly the most

powerful mafioso in Batista-era Cuba, he never served time in a United States prison.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKtrafficante.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/19/obituaries/santo-trafficante-reputed-mafia-chief-dies-at-72.html

Theodore G. "Ted" Shackley, Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Shackley

(July 16, 1927 - December 9, 2002) was an American CIA officer involved in many important and

controversial CIA operations during the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of the most decorated CIA officers.

He was commonly known as the "Blond Ghost" due to his dislike of being

photographed.[1][better source needed]

In the early 1960s, Shackley's work included being station chief in Miami, during the period of the Cuban

Missile Crisis, as well as the Cuban Project (also known as Operation Mongoose), which he directed. He

was also said to be the director of the "Phoenix Program" during the Vietnam War, as well as the CIA

station chief in Laos between 1966–1968, and Saigon station chief from 1968 through February 1972. In

1976, he was appointed Associate Deputy Director for Operations, and was in charge of the CIA's

worldwide covert operations. Shackley is perhaps best known for his involvement in CIA "black ops".

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKshackley.htm

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/18/guardianobituaries.usa

Richard Lee Armitage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(politician)

(born April 26, 1945) is an American former naval officer and a Republican politician who was appointed

the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005

under George W. Bush.[1]

He has acknowledged that he publicly released the classified information that

Valerie Plame Wilson was a secret agent for the CIA, triggering the Plame affair,[2]

though he has said it

was inadvertent

http://inthesetimes.com/issue/25/07/naureckas2507.html

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/category/mizgin-yilmaz-richard-armitage-series/

Former Congressman John LeBoutillier (R-NY) viewed the videotapes of Gritz’ meeting with Khun Sa,

videotapes that Gritz brought back from Burma:

As the Associated Press reported on June 4, 1987, “A drug warlord in Burma accuses Assistant Secretary

of Defense Richard L. Armitage and others of drug trafficking to fund anti-communist operations, the

Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Thursday.”

The AP story then stated, “In a three-hour videotape interview smuggled out of Southeast Asia within

the past week, Khun Sa said high-ranking American officials were involved in drug trafficking between

1965 and at least 1979.”

This three-hour videotape was made by retired Army Green Beret Lt. Colonel James “Bo” Gritz and then

smuggled out of Burma.

- See more at: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2009/11/11/armitage-part-i-the-early-years-the-

golden-triangle