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COMMENT: As William Faulkner noted: “The past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.”
In FTR#1209–part of the recently concluded series on “The Narco-Fascism of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang”– we wrapped up the broadcast with discussion of the seminal influence of Chiang’s drug-dealing regime on associated American national security elements that continued and expanded that narcotics trafficking.
A characteristically incisive, informative footnote in Peter Dale Scott’s American War Machine further develops the profound operational imprint that the KMT had on post World War II U.S. intelligence networks.
Exemplifying the Kuomintang fascist heritage of this milieu is General George Olmstead, in charge of covert “ops” for Albert Wedemeyer, who leaked FDR’s Rainbow Five mobilization plan, as discussed in, among other programs, FTR#1202.
Wedemeyer’s leak was a consummate act of treason.
. . . . [General George] Olmstead’s intelligence connections dated back to wartime service on the staff of General Albert Wedemeyer in China, where he was in charge of clandestine operations and in that capacity worked with OSS. He was thus a senior figure in what I am tempted to call the OSS China connection, which united so many of the people who were prominent in [OSS and CIA agent Paul] Helliwell’s postwar global drug connections. We have already mentioned Helliwell himself, who was head of the Special Intelligence branch of OSS in Kunming before he created Sea Supply Corp. in Bangkok. Willis Bird was the deputy chief of OSS China and then became the most important figure in Sea Supply after Helliwell’s return in 1951 from Bangkok to America. C.V. Starr, later represented by [Tommy “The Cork”] Corcoran, opened his insurance empire [later A.I.G.] in China to the creation of an OSS network outside the OSS-KMT cooperation agreement. See Smith, OSS, 267 (Starr), 273 (Bird), 236 (Helliwell). But this is not the whole picture. Elsewhere, I have dealt with the postwar activities of other members of the small OSS Detachment 202 under Paul Helliwell in Kunming: E. Howard Hunt, Ray Cline, Lou Conein John Singlaub, and Mitchell WerBell. All these men went on to develop postwar connections for the CIA with drug traffickers. Hunt in Mexico, Cline in Taiwan, Conein in Vietnam, Wer Bell in Laos, and Singlaub with the World anti-Communist League, which Hunt and Cline had help[ed to create. (Scottm Drugs, Oil and War, 20, 207).
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