Leslie "Ike" Atkinson is a former US Army sergeant and convicted drug trafficker, thought to have been a major figure in smuggling heroin into the United States from about 1968 to 1975.
Ike Atkinson moved to Bangkok, Thailand in the mid-1960s and in 1968 moved into the drugs trade. Ike had a contact with the Golden Triangle in the form of a Chinese Thai man named Luetchi Rubiwat, who worked and was a business partner in Jack's American bar, Atkin...
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