Leslie "Ike" Atkinson was a US Army master sergeant and convicted drug trafficker.
10 Facts About Ike Atkinson
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Ike Atkinson is believed to have been a major figure in smuggling heroin into the United States from Southeast Asia from about 1968 to 1975.
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Ike Atkinson was convicted the following year and was sentenced to 31 years in prison.
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Frank Lucas, one of Atkinson's partners in the US, stated that this was how Ike smuggled the narcotic out of Thailand:.
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Ike Atkinson flew a country-boy North Carolina carpenter over to Bangkok.
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Ike Atkinson was very smart, because he made sure we used heavy guys' coffins.
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Ike Atkinson never had any association with constructing coffins for transporting heroin or drugs.
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Ike Atkinson was charged in 1987, while in prison, for his part in another heroin smuggling operation which he was allegedly running from prison.
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Ike Atkinson was charged following a 15-month investigation where an undercover agent, posing as a corrupt German diplomat bought five pounds of heroin on Atkinson's behalf in Thailand.
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Ike Atkinson was released from prison in 2007, and died in November 2014 at the age of 88.