Weird article but Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project is involved. Have heard of this Vietnam-era heroin smuggling before. Found this recent July 2003 article at the cia-drugs list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/8902 and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/8939 and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/8941

More news articles here:
http://www.themacdonaldcase.org/news_archives.htm

Some lines in the July 15 2003 article that got my interest:

"former FBI agent Ted Gunderson ... Gunderson contends that
the whole case against MacDonald was a government
conspiracy. He says Vietnam vet Mitchell had been smuggling
heroin-with the approval of Fort Bragg's top brass -by
concealing it inside the chest cavities of dead soldiers
sent home from southeast Asia. ..."

"MacDonald continues to deny his guilt and may soon get a
chance to prove his innocence now that Barry Scheck - the
DNA expert on O.J. Simpson's Dream Team - has joined his
defense."

[Barry Scheck of Innocence Project fame]

Also look up Gary Webb in Google for more recent examples of
U.S. government agencies' uses of cocaine dealing by their
proxy armies.

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Will New DNA evidence free Green Beret Killer?

Globe [the weekly supermarket tabloid]

July 15, 2003

By DAWNA KAUFMANN

A handsome young husband murders his pregnant wife and
blames the bloody crime on a satanic cult. It sounds like
the story of Scott Peterson, who's awaiting trial for the
slaving of his wife Laci and their unborn son Conner.

But 33 years ago, an eerily similar set of circumstances
surrounded Capt. Jeffrey R. MacDonald, the former Green
Beret and emergency- room dc doc convicted of staughtering
his expectant wife and the: two young daughters. The
sensational case captivated the nation's attention for
years, spawning the best seller Fatal Vision and a TV movie
of the same name

MacDonald, 59, is serving a triple life sentence at the
Cumberland Federal Correctional Institute in Maryland. But
the case is far from closed-thanks to new DNA evidence.

MacDonald claims that four drug-crazed hippies invaded his
Fort Bragg, N.C., home on the fateful morning of Feb. 17,
1970. While a blonde girl wearing a floppy hat chanted,
"Acid is groovy, kill the pigs," three men viciously
attacked him with a club, knives and an ice pick. He lost
consciousness and awakened to the nightmarish sight of his
butchered fivemonths-pregnant wife Colette, 26, and
daughters Kimberly, 5, and Kristen, 2.

MacDonald suffered stab wounds and a punctured lung, but
military police arrested him, convinced he'd killed his
family and staged the crime scene. He was originally
cleared, but when the crime went unsolved for years,
Colette's relatives pressed Raleigh, N.C., prosecutors for
action. They did, and MacDonald was tried and convicted of
murder in 1979. He was released in 1980 after an appeal, but
two years later the Supreme Court reinstated his conviction
and sent him back to prison.

"Jeff didn't get a fair trial," former FBI agent Ted
Gunderson tells GLOBE. "Evidence disappeared from the police
locker, prosecutors didn't share information with the
defense as the law says they must and the judge prevented
the jury from hearing important testimony." Gunderson, now a
private eye who has worked for MacDonald since 1980,
complains that the jury never heard the confession of Helena
Stoeckley, a colonel's daughter who admitted to being the
woman in the floppy hat. "I've got a signed affidavit and
filmed confession from her," Gunderson says. "Helena told me
that the killings were her initiation into a satanic cult
led by her boyfriend Greg Mitchell."

Gunderson contends that the whole case against MacDonald was
a government conspiracy. He says Vietnam vet Mitchell had
been smuggling heroin-with the approval of Fort Bragg's top
brass -by concealing it inside the chest cavities of dead
soldiers sent home from southeast Asia.

"Then Mitchell and his pals would distribute the drugs on
the East Coast," Gunderson says. "It was a huge operation."
He adds that things went awry when Mitchell and his cronies
started sampling the product, fried their brains and got
into devil worshipping. And when they sought help for their
addiction at the base hospital, MacDonald turned them away
and thus became a target for their revenge.

"Jeff was framed so the drug trade wouldn't be exposed,"
Gunderson says. "It was the worst investigation and trial
I've ever seen."

Famed forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht also questions
whether MacDonald committed the crime.

"The original investigators botched the case and medical
evidence was slim to none," Wecht tells GLOBE. "Did Jeffrey
MacDonald kill his family? My gut instinct after meeting him
andreviewing the material is no. But it's also within the
realm of possibility that he did.

"Still, there's something in my heart that makes me want to
believe he could not kill his own two beloved children.
That's something only a true psychopath could do."

MacDonald continues to deny his guilt and may soon get a
chance to prove his innocence now that Barry Scheck - the
DNA expert on O.J. Simpson's Dream Team - has joined his
defense.

"DNA tests weren't available when Jeff was on trial, but
Scheck has sent numerous items from the evidence locker to
the Armed Forces Institute for Pathology for testing,"
MacDonald's lead attorney Harvey Silverglate tells GLOBE.
"If the results don't match Jeff, he'll either get a new
trial or be sprung from prison entirely."

But former prosecutor James Blackburn, who helped put
MacDonald behind bars, calls the conspiracy theory
"ridiculous." "The satanic cult and drug smuggling ring were
just smoke screens the defense threw out to deflect
attention from their client," he declares. "When I see Scott
Peterson's attorney float the satanic ' cult theory and play
to the media, it's all too familiar. It didn't work for
Jeffrey MacDonald, and I don't expect it will work for Scott
Peterson."

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