OPIUM STRATEGEM
"At the Hotel Sole in Palermo, Sicily, there was a gathering of narcotics chieftans from Marseilles, New York, Mecixo City, Hong Kong, Manila, Paris, Rome and singapore. The meetings were of an extraordinary nature called to compensate for the loss of illegal opium in the Mddle East. An alternate source of 40 tons of raw opium had to be found immediately. A shift was made from Middle to Far East. The operation to take control was dubbed Papaver."
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"Papaer . . . the Latin name for poppy."
Hunton Downs, ex-Consul, Foreign Service officer (USIS), Lt. Col. U.S. Army, foreign correspondent and author. He has travelled throughout South Vietnam by foot, boat and jeep, convered war sones as a correspondent, and made extensive trips to North Thailand, the Burmese border and Laos. He spent eight years gathering the factual material on which this incredible adventure is based!
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