_Remembrance/poe.shtml. Poe’s superior at Sea Supply, Joost’s successor Walter Kuzmak, was a longtime close friend of Howard Hunt; he testified on Hunt’s behalf when Hunt sued a newspaper for saying that he had been in Dallas on the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated (Lisa Pease, “James Angleton Part II,” in The Assassinations, ed. James DiEugenio, Lisa Pease, Judge Joe Brown, and Zachary Sklar [Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003], 196). Kuzmak had been airdropped on an OSS mission into Thailand in July 1945 at a time when Hunt was at the OSS station in Kunming (E. Bruce Reynolds, Thailand’s Secret War: The Free Thai, OSS, and SOE during World War II [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005], 360).
16. Valentine, The Strength of the Pack, 170.
17. Valentine, The Strength of the Pack, 388, citing interview with Tony Poe and Albert Habib Memorandum Report, FBN, January 27, 1966, cf. 77, 170; Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf, 422.
18. Roger Warner, Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America’s Clandestine War in Laos (South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1996), 264.
19. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, 296–97.
20. Bertil Lintner, Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency since 1948 (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 1999), 235–36.
21. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, 440, 455. In 1993, Wei Xuekang, relocated to Burma, was indicted in New Jersey and later convicted in absentia for a shipment of 680 kilograms (a ton and a third) of heroin (Bangkok Post, June 27, 1999; Nation [Bangkok], September 9, 2003). Seven years later it was reported that he had become a banker by purchasing 80 percent of the Yangon-based May Flower Bank (Asian Economic News, July 24, 2000).
22. Martin Booth, Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1999), 175, 177, 179; cf. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, 279, 399–401, 405–8.
23. Lintner, Burma in Revolt, 310–11. Ma Sik-yu died in Taiwan in 1992. Cf. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, 405–6: “Shortly after the Ma brothers’ flight from Hong Kong in 1977, the Hong Kong Star cited DEA sources to report that ‘suspected syndicate boss Ma Sik-yu was deeply involved with a network that spied on China for Taiwan.’ . . . Citing sources in the colony’s Investigation Bureau, the Star further claimed that agents of the People’s Republic of China ‘played a big part in giving Hong Kong police evidence to smash the alleged syndicate, which led to the arrest of ten in Hong Kong and Ma Sik-yu in Taiwan.’”
24. Independent, January 20, 1998, http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n058
.a10.html: “According to the reports, which were accompanied by a picture of Mr Ma’s son with John Major, the payment was made in an effort to smooth Ma senior’s return to Hong Kong from Taiwan, where he has lived as a fugitive since 1978. Three months after the donation was made, Ma Ching-kwan, Mr Ma’s son, was invited to dine with Mr Major at Downing Street. The Oriental Daily News published a copy of the invitation and the menu—cucumber and tarragon soup, roast lamb with rosemary and orange and caramelised lemon tart. . . . Last night the Conservative Party refused to discuss individual donors but a spokesman said donations were never accepted with conditions attached. ‘We will categorically say that the Conservative Party did not or would not accept donations conditional on favours,’ the spokesman said. . . . Mr Major’s office said he was in the United States yesterday and, therefore, not available to explain why CK Ma’s presence at Downing Street on 27 September 1994 was not listed at the time as one of the former Prime Minister’s official engagements.”
25. Alain Labrousse, La drogue, l’argent et les armes (Paris: Fayard, 1991), 240–44.
26. Mark Jacobson, “The Return of Superfly,” New York Magazine, August 2000, http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/3649. Cf. http://www.wanttoknow
.info/militarysmuggledheroin.
27. Valentine, The Strength of the Pack, 171; cf. 103.
28. Michael Levine, “Mainstream Media: The Drug War’s Shills,” in Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press, ed. Borjesson (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002), 261–64.
29. William J. Chambliss, On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 153.
