 card number 11 our man in Laos, who's our man in Laos, who's our man in Laos, General Vang Paol. One of America's dirtiest drug deals was made during the US Secret War in Laos from 1961 to 1973. The CIA set up a secret military base in Laos, Laos' second largest city, Long Tiang, often called Spook Heaven. Air America, a CIA property, flew up to 400 flights a day in and out of Long Tiang in order to supply an army of 40,000 Hmong or Miao tribesmen, mercenaries with mercenaries who were fighting communist forces in northern Laos. The CIA's supplied army was led by General Vang Paol, a major Laotian opium supplier. Air America transported his opium from Hmong villages where it was grown to market markets in Vienti Laos and Saigon, South Vietnam. In 1967, the CIA helped Vang Paol set up his own airline named Chiang Quang Air Transport. It was soon dubbed Air Heroin by the Air American employees who piloted the planes. Vang Piao's original CIA case officer, Anthony Pushepsky aka Tony Po was transferred out of Long Tiang after he complained to his superiors about the opium traffic. According to Tony Po, Vang Paol was quote killing was quote was making millions because he had his own avenue for his heroin. We were giving him freedom of navigation to Thailand. They weren't going to Thailand. They were flying over to Da Nang and then President Thieu, South Vietnam's president in 1968 to 1975 would receive it. It was like a big organized mafia. End quote. A secret Department of Defense reports later showed that the CIA spent 60 million dollars more in Laos than they got from Congress. Many CIA men who ran the Laotian war surfaced during the Iran Contra scandal including Richard Secord, Theodore Shansky, Thomas Klein's John Sing-Lub and Ralph Chichi Quinterino. Wow, wow, wow. So from the 1960s to 1970s they leapfrog into the Iran Contra scandal in the late 1970s and early 1980s or 1980s mainly. That's when it broke. Wow, wow, wow. Our man in Laos. Look at that. Look at that. Our man in Laos. Look at that pretty smile. Look at that pretty smile. Bloody smile. CIA funded smile. Crazy crazy.