CIA hitman Bill Young found dead in Chiang Mai

[Blue_Tires]

An American missionary's son who became a top CIA Vietnam War-era hit-man in the jungles of Burma, Laos and Thailand has been found dead in his Chiang Mai home, a bullet in his head, a revolver in one hand and a crucifix in the other.
"Bill Young died as he once lived - violently," said a friend.
William Young was 76, a tall, lean, modest and quietly spoken man who belied the image of a CIA killer. He was likened by his British friends to a retired James Bond.
"He was an extraordinary individual who led an extraordinary life," said the US Consulate General in Chiang Mai, the main city of northern Thailand, in a death notice.
Despite his action-packed CIA career, Young drifted into quiet retirement in his rambling home on the outskirts of Chiang Mai. Disowned by the CIA after challenging US policy in Vietnam and Laos, Young worked at home for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, using the contacts he had built up over the years among the hill-tribes of Laos and northern Thailand.
I visited him over a period of several weeks, working on the script of a film about his extraordinary life. Our long recording sessions were broken regularly by phone calls from his contacts, conducted in at least four different hill tribe languages.


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[Peace Patriot]

1. The comment section for this article is pretty interesting....

Here's one (at end of part 2 of the article):

"Bill Young was a drug runner out of Laos. I don't find any improvement in the missionary image in Thailand from what he did. Markus Young his cousin, works with the Wa in Burma. Divine Inheritance. So Bill Young worked for the DEA in Chiangmai and what was he doing when all the Hmong and Akha were slaughtered in Chiangmai and Chiangrai during the DEA Thaksin 2003 edition of the Drug War? Being so heavily involved in drugs, yet missionaries in Thailand feel justified taking away Akha children "because their parents are involved with drugs." Yeah, right. And the Wa showed up at the funeral, fitting considering that they built their empire running meth. These kind of missionaries are a blight on the human race and however they exit from Thailand is of no importance. Meanwhile missionaries such as Bill Young continue to have cushy lives in Thailand at the expense of the impoverished hill tribe they claim to help. Considering all the innocent hill tribe who were murdered without trial in Thailand, I say good riddance and the more of these missionaries who follow his final shameless example, the better.
Posted by akha at 8:08pm on April 7, 2011"

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