In Popular Culture
- The concept of smuggling drugs from Vietnam via dead soldiers is referenced in Tom Clancy's book Without Remorse.
- A similar plot was used in the 1980s television show Miami Vice in the episode titled "Back In The World" (first aired December 6, 1985). Vietnam war correspondent Ira Stone (Bob Balaban), who is investigating a series of drug-related deaths involving methanol poisoning, the byproduct of a decomposing drug stash that had been brought back to Miami more than 10 years earlier in the bodies of dead GIs. The investigation leads to a character known as "The Sargeant," who turns out to be a rogue CIA agent named Col. Maynard. The lethal drug stash is uncovered, but Maynard escapes, only to re-appear later in the series in the episode "Stone's War" (first aired October 3, 1986) running an illegal mercenary operation in support of the Contras in Nicaragua.
- In the movie American Gangster (which is based on the life and times of Frank Lucas), his on-screen counterpart "Nate" is played by Roger Guenveur Smith.
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