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'Lose scenario'? Do U.S. invade to take over, or destroy? Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia etc.

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Channel: Public Enquiry · 2017 · News & Politics

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My father straight off told me, “The VietNam war is about drugs,” and that there were secret societies involved. I didn't understand, and since it was the late 1960s, and I had long hair, etc. I deduced my father was having a “drug talk” with me. It all seemed so serious, what with some professor and all. So, I proceeded to sit up straight, and got ready to say, “yes, sir, waiting for my dad to tell me not to smoke dope, etc. But that is not what happened, my father continued talking about his intelligence career. He explained, how he had first worked with the State Department, when he was an exchange student, then his service in the OSS, being “sheep-dipped” into G2, and being put on MacArthur's staff. They also talked a bunch about the Viet Nam war. They both felt that “they” (the powers that be) were playing out a “lose scenario,” because of the US actions taken so far. They talked about psychological warfare, about how the news wasn't the real news. That the stuff in the news was “sway pieces,” and that when I had been told he was an advertising/PR salesman, my dad was actually helping to put together a daily high-level briefing. That he had left the CIA in 1959, and was talking to me now because of some paper he had signed, that didn't allow he to reveal anything for ten years.

It soon became apparent that I had no frame of reference, and wasn't truly able comprehended what they were saying. The meeting was over, and I went on with my life. I had some other conversations, and arguments with my Dad where I learned some other things, but one of the most amazing came after he was gone. Even though, I hadn't understood the talks had engendered me to investigate “CIA-Drugs.”

Going through my father's papers after his death in 1990, I found an itinerary for the 1956 trip and noticed that he had traveled to Chang Mai, Thailand. At that time I was very interested in the history of Chang Mai, because of role the city has played in the opium/heroin trade. I had been told that the city had grown to over a million people from being a very small town in the 1950s, and had been looking for information. Now, I could simply ask my mother.

So the next time I visited my Mother, I asked her about Chang Mai, she said that, “Yes, it was a small village. The biggest thing in town was the church.” She said she had some pictures in a book up on her bookshelf. I reached up to get the photograph album, and mom made a little aside, “That's when I stopped believing everything I read in the newspaper.”
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