5: The Informant Who Came To Shoot Me

An embassy. A vengeful informant. A loaded pistol.

And is it ever a good idea to send your family undercover?

In the early 1990s, Thailand was the crossroads of the global drug trade. It was where power, corruption, and survival intersected. 

Northern Thailand included what became known as the Golden Triangle, the lawless borderland where Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos meet. This region was one of the world’s largest producers of heroin, feeding Western and Asian markets.

Opium poppies grew in territory controlled not by governments, but by warlords, militias, and ethnic armies. Narco Warriors expert guest Phil Matthews who worked in Bangkok, reveals how the risks weren’t just out in the opium fields, and why the region remains at the centre of a deadly trade that never really ended.

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Host: Lindsay Charlton
Insider: Phil Matthews