Questions about Charles Dean (brother of Presidential Candidate Howard Dean)
by Todd Brendan Fahey
November 24, 2003
The remains of Charles Dean, brother of U.S. Presidential candidate Howard Dean, were purportedly found in Laos, the small, communist nation located atop Cambodia and Thailand, and which was the epicenter of unauthorized bombings by then-President Richard Nixon. Laos was also a hotbed of CIA covert activity during the Vietnam War (and also a major hub for drug-smuggling/opium-heroin production--fostered by CIA and airlifted by the CIA's Air America-front).
Questions:
1) What was Charles Dean doing in Laos in 1974, during the tumultuous last two years of the Vietnam war? It is HIGHLY DOUBTFUL that Mr. Dean would have simply been "trekking" through Laos, as an garden-variety backpacker (Laos was not letting in U.S. passport holders--other than of the CIA/miltary variety--during these years).
2) Was Charles Dean officially registered among U.S. military personnel?
2a) Was Charles Dean operating as a CIA functionary during his time in Laos?
As to 2a) Methinks he was. Call it a hunch. 'cos there's no other earthly reason he would have been in said area, in those years, other than "in official capacity."
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