This photo you’re looking at has been published in six different countries and six different languages around the world in 1951 during the Korean War at the time Sal was a undercover photographer for the OSS that was CIA back then he traveled around the world photographing ships in transit and ports he traveled on a couple of different merchant marine ships his cover was working for the seafarers union

This is A Cambodian opium den Sal heard so many stories about them, He wanted to check them out for a bunch of reasons first to try to get a photo which almost got him killed great published story with this photo One of the other reasons was he smoked opium before and seemed to like it a lot and maybe the one main reason was the prostitution that went on above these opium dens he told me some pretty wild stories since he was gay at a level most people don’t know about, but from what he told me above that opium den was that level Indonesia was always famous for the best female impersonators still to this day, Sal ended up staying with a man and a woman At their house Because he was thrown out of that Opium den For taking this one photo he told me he had so much fun there with them and getting high he almost missed getting back on his ship and leaving the Port

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