Word: fleener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TERRE FLEENER San Antonio...
Strong Words. Some Vietnamese charge that the real motive behind the current U.S. investigations is to protect American smugglers against their Vietnamese competitors. One newspaper cited the case of Maj. Delbert W. Fleener, occasional pilot for Ambassador Bunker, who was convicted last year of smuggling 850 pounds of opium into Viet Nam from Thailand aboard Air Force planes. The daily Chuong Viet dismissed the flap over narcotics as an attempt by Washington to give the U.S. public a new excuse for getting its men out of Viet Nam. "Could it be," asked the paper, "that the U.S. Government now realizes...