The Female Warlord Who Had C.I.A. Connections and Opium Routes
Lo would go on to earn the designation "kingpin of the heroin traffic in Southeast Asia," by United States drug enforcement officials, after striking a deal with the Burmese military government
that allowed him to resume trading in opium in return for assisting government forces against rebel forces.
Olive Yang grew up as one of 11 children in an ethnic Chinese family of hereditary rulers of what was then the semiautonomous Shan state of Kokang.
Jackie Yang wrote that It was a temptation she couldn’t resist,
Retired as a warlord but respected among the ethnic rebel groups, Ms. Yang was recruited by the
Burmese government’s chief of intelligence, Khin Nyunt, along with her former colleague Mr.
Ms. Yang’s army was observed traveling across the border to an airfield in Thailand, where an unmarked C-47 aircraft
arriving from Taiwan, the seat of the Chinese Nationalist government, was reported to have unloaded weapons.
By GABRIELLE PALUCHJULY 21, 2017
MUSE, Myanmar — She was born to royalty in British colonial Burma, but rejected
that life to become a cross-dressing warlord whose C.I.A.-supplied army established opium trade routes across the Golden Triangle.
