The Leslie Ike Atkinson Southeast Asian Opium Boom Heroin Smuggling Conspiracy. Corruption, #55

Read in this informative report how U. S. Army retired Master Sergeant Leslie Ike Atkinson, using military "hop" flights during the Vietnam War, smuggled heroin from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle into the United States using furniture in addition to the dead bodies of American servicemen that were being transported aboard Pentagon military aircraft carrying these deceased soldiers in coffins and also read about how Atkinson created a smuggling ring within the armed forces among soldiers that he recruited for this nefarious task.
Read about how Atkinson's attempts to mail the heroin into the United States using the U. S. Army Postal system eventually landed this military heroin kingpin smuggler in prison in addition to several other members of his ring that were part of the North Carolina mob. Opium is a key source of the narcotic heroin and Burma is where much opium was grown during the Vietnam War after the fall of the French Connection.
Read about how the Central Intelligence Agency's arming of the Kuomintang (KMT) troops with weapons in Burma using CIA front shipping company Sea Supply Inc., in addition to using its CIA front company airline Civil Air Transport (CAT) to fly harvested opium to Thailand contributed to Ike Atkinson's ability to buy and smuggle heroin into the United States.