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a dirty fighter  By Richard S Ehrlich  BANGKOK - Anthony A "Tony
Poe" Poshepny, a decorated former official of the US Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) who collected enemy ears, dropped
decapitated human heads from the air on to communists and stuck
heads on spikes, was buried on the weekend in California.
Poshepny, who waged failed secret wars for the United States in
Indonesia, Tibet and Laos, was often compared to the Marlon
Brando character Kurtz in the movie Apocalypse Now.  "The
posting of decapitated heads obviously sent a powerful message -
especially to North Vietnamese troops seeking to invade the
homelands of the Hmong and Laotian people," Philip Smith,  We
flew in real low, in front of that bastard's house, and I threw
the head so it bounced right on his porch and into his front
door.  executive director of the Washington-based Center for
Public Policy Analysis, said in an e-mail interview after
Poshepny's death on June 27.  "He success