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A Nation Betrayed
(excerpts are from a transcript of the video)
Col. James `Bo' Gritz:
What I want to tell you very quickly is something that I feel is more heinous
than the Bataan death march. Certainly it is of more concern to you as
Americans than the Watergate. What I'm talking about is something we found
out in Burma - May 1987. We found it out from a man named Khun Sa. He is the
recognized overlord of heroin in the world. Last year he sent 900 tons of
opiates and heroin into the free world. This year it will be 1200 tons.
[video showing discussion at Khun Sa's headquarters -- some translation of
Burmese to English going on. Bo Gritz still narrating in foreground.]
On video tape he said to us something that was most astounding: that US
government officials have been and are now his biggest customers, and have
been for the last twenty years. I wouldn't believe him. We fought a war in
Laos and Cambodia even as we fought whatever it was in Vietnam. The point is
that there are as many bomb holes in those two other countries as there are
in Vietnam. Five hundred and fifty plus Americans were lost in Laos. Not one
of them ever came home. We heard a president say, "The war is over, we are
out with honor - all of the prisoners are home." and a few other lies. Now we
got rid of that president, but we didn't get rid of the problem. We ran the
war in Laos and Cambodia through drugs. The money that would not be
appropriated by a liberal congress, was appropriated. And you know who we
used for distribution? Santos Trafficante, old friend of the CIA and mobster
out of Cuba and Florida. We lost the war!
Fifty-eight thousand Americans were killed. Seventy-thousand became drug
casualties. In the sixties and seventies you saw an infusion of drugs into
America like never before. Where do you think the Mafia takes the heroin and
opiates that it gets through its arrangement with the US government? It
doesn't distribute them in Africa or Europe. This is the big money bag HERE.
We're Daddy Warbucks for them. So I submit to you that the CIA has been
pressed for solutions. Each time they have gone to the sewer to find it. And
you can't smell like a rose when you've been playing in the cesspool. We've
been embracing organized crime. Now you've all looked and heard about Ollie
North, about the Contras, about nobody knowing anything.
[cut to part of Iran Contra hearings with Ollie North explaining the flow of
funds from Iran to the Contras]
North:
And Mr. Gorbanifar suggested several incentives to make that February
transaction work. And the attractive incentive for me was the one he made
that residuals could flow to support the Nicaraguan resistance.
Legislator:
Even Gorbanifar knew that you were supporting the Contras.
North:
Yes he did. Isvestia knew it. The name had been in the papers in Moscow. It
had been all over Danny Ortega's newscasts. Radio Havana was broadcasting it.
It had been in every newspaper in the land.
Legislator:
All our enemies knew it and you wanted to keep it from the United States
Congress.
North:
We wanted to be able to deny a covert operation.
[end of scene]
Bo Gritz:
We have a constitution that says that the laws will be made by the Congress,
enforced by the executive branch, interpreted by the judicial branch. But in
reality we have an executive branch that has for more than twenty years
operated in what Ollie North called a parallel government. When the Congress
says no, it makes no difference. They're gonna do it anyway. And it is
special intelligence -- top secret. Why? Not because the communists don't
know what were doing. It's to keep it a secret from YOU. You're not capable
of making those kinds of decisions -- according to those in parallel
government. The reason I know ... I was there. I've been a product of the
parallel government myself.
Narrator:
Lieutenant Colonel James `Bo' Gritz is the most decorated Green Beret
commander of the Vietnam Era. General William Westmoreland, in writing his
memoirs, singled out Bo Gritz as the "American Soldier" for his exemplary
courage in combat and outstanding ingenuity in recovering a highly secret
black-box the Viet Cong had taken from a crashed U-2 spy plane. The feature
films "Rambo", "Uncommon Valor" and "Missing in Action" were based in part
upon his real-life military experiences.
Bo Gritz:
Dick Secord, General, United States Air Force, a man I know well, said it
best. Before the senate investigating committee Dick Secord was asked: If we
were supporting the Contras, why were we selling them arms bought from a
communist bloc nation at exorbitant profit rates?
[cut to a scene from Congressional hearings]
Senator:
If the purpose of the enterprise was to help the contras, why did you charge
Colero a mark-up?
Secord:
We were in business to make a living, Senator. We had to make a living. I
didn't see anything wrong with it at the time. It was a commercial
enterprise.
Senator:
Oh..I thought the purpose of the enterprise was to aid Colero's cause.
Secord:
Can't I have two purposes? I did.
Senator:
Oh ... alright.
Bo Gritz:
And then Dick Secord said in his playboy interview: "I think I deserve the
eight million that we made from the Iran arms sale for all the hard work I
did." If you've got to pay a patriot, you've got the wrong guy. These are
patriots for profit. There has been a guise of patriotism that a lot of
people have been hiding behind. War is their business. Business has been
good.
[fade to a scene from the Vietnam War]
Narrator:
Bo Gritz risked his life a thousand times in combat in Vietnam before he was
sent by national security council staffer Tom Harvey in the White House to
Burma in November of 1986 in search of American prisoners of war. He
discovered instead a heroin highway and a nation betrayed by high-level
American officials involved in narcotics trafficking. Tom Harvey and his
superiors in the White House were not pleased with Bo's report.
[fade to a scene of Bo Gritz in a field. It apprears to be in Southeast Asia.
Palm trees and oxen indigenous to the area abound.]
Bo Gritz:
The thing that I was most concerned about was -- and I thought it was
fantastic -- was the [Asian] general's offer to stop the flow of opium and
heroin into the free world. When I asked him [assume he's talking about a
conversation with Tom Harvey now] he said "That's fantastic."
There was a pause. Then he said: "Bo, there's no one here that supports
that." And I said, "What?! Vice-President Bush has been appointed by
President Reagan as the number one policeman to control drug entry into the
United States. How can you say there's no interest and no support when we
bring back a videotape with a direct interview with a man who puts 900 tons
of opium and heroin across into the free world every year and is willing to
stop it?" And he said, "Bo, what can I tell you? All I can tell you is there
is no interest in doing that here."
Well that made me wonder. That's because it doesn't sound American and it
doesn't sound right. Thats when we began to do our own investigation, because
for about three years people had told me -- both in Washington DC and,
interestingly enough, in Oklahoma City -- that the whole POW situation was
being undermined by U.S. Government officials involved in drug trafficking. I
wouldn't believe it. I said: "You guys aren't playing with a full deck...
you've got yourselves strung out too thin." And they said: "Bo, you better
listen, because for three years we've had prisoners literally within our
grasp and something has happened at the last minute." (I said), "Each time,
I've made every effort to cooperate with government officials. I can't
believe that people in the U.S. Government would actually, either overtly or
covertly, do anything to undermine a rescue operation."
Well, we're still without Prisoners of War and there is no interest, we're
told, at the White House in stopping the flow of drugs coming in from the
Golden Triangle into the free world.
[fade to front-page articles about Bo Gritz in PARADE Magazine and in SOLDIER
OF FORTUNE]
Narrator:
Lieutenant Colonel Bo Gritz is no stranger to controversy. In thirty years of
devoted service to the U.S. Army and to the recovery of American prisoners of
war, he has encountered plenty. .....
.... Bo Gritz won his Green Beret in the Army Special forces by passing all
courses in unconventional warfare training. After graduating from officer's
candidate school, the newly-commissioned second lieutenant then insisted on
Ranger training.
Assigned to the command of the first mobile South Vietnamese guerilla forces
to be organized, Gritz also operated secretly in Cambodia and Laos with his
force of Cambodian mercenaries, or "Bo's", as he called them. By official
body count, over 450 of the enemy died as a result of Gritz's actions. His
wartime records are replete with examples of Bo's concern for keeping
Americans alive in a war gone mad.
As recon chief of the supersecret Delta Force, Bo was cited for valor in
saving the lives of 30 U.S. infantrymen from the "Big Red One" Division. More
often than not, his valor was in placing himself between the enemy and his
men. According to an official military report dated 31 July 1967 submitted on
then Major Gritz: "His personal bravery is legendary, exemplified by the fact
that he has been awarded five silver stars and numerous other decorations for
valor." In all, Bo Gritz was awarded 62 citations for valor, five silver
stars, eight bronze stars, two purple hearts and a presidential citation.
Bo was ready to sign up for a fifth tour of duty when he had a talk with
General Fred Weiyan (sp?), the "daddy-rabbit" in Vietnam. As Gritz described
it: "I was a major and special operations chief. I'll never forget that day.
I stood there and heard that man say: `Bo, you're not going to win the war,
and neither am I.' That was the most disillusioning moment of my life. It
meant that every man who had ever lost his finger or his life had lost it for
nothing. I decided, on the spot, to leave Vietnam. I would not kill another
enemy or risk another comrade's life."
Bo Gritz:
I've had the opportunity to do a lot of things that other officers have not.
I was the first reconnaissance chief and intelligence officer for Delta Force
-- commanded the first guerilla forces that went behind enemy lines. When I
commanded Special Forces in Latin America, we did it exactly right. And we
did exactly what men in camouflage are supposed to do. It was very natural
that Harold R. Aaron (sp?) would single me out because, besides having a
sixth-degree black belt in karate, I have established an ability to operate
on my own. And I think when Aaron said, "Bo, we want you to do this", he
understood that I'm also hard headed enough that I wouldn't cave in. He said,
"I want you to consider retiring. It would only be temporary. We have
overwhelming evidence now that people are still there, being held in
communist prisons." Mr. H. Ross Perot had been asked by Eugene Tighe,
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, to back a private mission that
would look into the POW situation. Perot said, "Bo, I want you to go there. I
want you to do everything you have to do. You come and tell me there aren't
any prisoners of war left alive."
Narrator:
Bo returned from Indo-China with extensive evidence that there were indeed
American prisoners of war in captivity, including a solid report of 47 at one
particular camp. Perot turned the project back over to General Tighe who
wrote to Secretary of Defense Harold Brown asking that the source, a Nguyen
Dok Jong (sp?) be brought to the United States for a polygraph test. Brown
repeated the request to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. One month later,
Vance finally responded that the Commissioner of Immigration would not permit
Jong into the United States for further questioning. As Bo puts it: "Think
about it. One man, not a thousand, and the Defense Intelligence Agency chief
and Secretary of State can't get him into the country. That was a pretty
clear signal that the military was politically handcuffed on the prisoner of
war issue."
For eight years Gritz sought to find and free American POW's. He crossed five
times behind enemy lines into communist Laos and Vietnam. Three times he was
within moments of embracing those American heroes our government had declared
dead. Each time something unexplained caused Gritz and his Operation Lazarus
team to fall short, with freedom and victory in sight for the POW's. (to be
continued)
transcribed by Jim Burnes
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