 Card number 22 Thomas Klein Thomas Klein X CIA agent and arms merchant Thomas Klein card number 22 Thomas Gregor Klein's first met Richard Secord C-card number 19 during the secret war in Laos Clines as CIA base chief and lung Tang Supervised the creation of a secret army of Humong tribesmen to fight the Communist Pathet Lao forces. The Humong were traditionally opium growers with the CIA's help general Wang Pao leader of the Hung army became a major supplier of opium. Secord's air wing flew tactical raids against the Pathet Lao Lao which also had the effect of destroying Von Pao's competition. Air America the CIA's airline transported the opium from Laos to Thailand. The CIA's secret Laotian operations were partially financed by opium profits. Clines and Secord's team up again in the Middle East during the mid-1970s the Pentagon awarded Clines company EATSCO a contract worth over one billion dollars to chip arms to Egypt. According to renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson Secord who had helped to secure the contract was also a silent partner in Etsco. As with Theodore Shackley Secord number 24 this blatant conflict of interest led to Secord's early retirement from the military. Clines pleaded guilty in 1983 to overcharging the Pentagon eight million dollars for which he paid fines of a hundred ten thousand dollars. In 1984 Secord brought Clines into the enterprise Secord number 1920 and excerpt in the small weapons and expert in the small weapons market Clines brokered the enterprises and European deals involving purchases and transportation of arms for the Contras. Part number 22 Thomas Clines and Halukhaz posting that Clines was the only Iran Contra defendant to have served a prison sentence. That's why he doesn't look too happy maybe. The belly button dude didn't serve any time I guess.