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Rumors Persist That The CIA Helps Export Opium From Afghanistan
Submitted by Kit O'Connell via TheAntiMedia.org,
Despite billions spent to eradicate opium crops in Afghanistan, the crop is more popular than ever there, leading many to wonder whether some U.S. forces may actually be encouraging its growth and the heroin it later becomes.
In July, the Centers for Disease Control warned of record-breaking numbers of heroin deaths in the United States. “Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 18–25 in the past decade,” the CDC reported.
In the same month, it was reported that opium production is stronger than ever in Afghanistan, which now produces 90 percent of the world’s supply of the plant that’s refined to create heroin. This rise in production would have been impossible prior to the U.S.-led invasion, and it comes despite some $8.4 billion spent in counternarcotics efforts by the U.S., specifically designated to wipe out opium production in Afghanistan.
In fact, as Global Post reported in October, under the watchful eye of the U.S., opium use expanded to new parts of Afghanistan and growers now make use of modern, advanced agricultural technologies.
With photos circulating in 2010 that show U.S. soldiers patrolling opium fields, questions remain about what America’s real involvement may be in the opium trade. As Abby Martin noted in a 2014 investigation for Media Roots, while the Taliban had all but eradicated opium, it began to thrive just months after American forces replaced the Taliban-led government in 2001.
Martin noted that the CIA has long been tied to the global drug trade, where it’s accused of putting more effort into controlling rather than eradicating illicit substances. She added,
“Circumstantial evidence aside, there is no conclusive proof that the CIA is physically running opium out of Afghanistan. However, it’s hard to believe that a region under full US military occupation – with guard posts and surveillance drones monitoring the mountains of Tora Bora – aren’t able to track supply routes of opium exported from the country’s various poppy farms (you know, the ones the US military are guarding).”
According to a January report from Mother Jones, the DEA agent formerly in charge of the agency’s efforts in Afghanistan reported repeated conflict between DEA eradication efforts and CIA agents:
“[Edward] Follis says the DEA and CIA often bumped heads in Afghanistan. … While hinting that the CIA sometimes turned a blind eye to the Afghan drug trade, Follis won’t get into specifics. In his book, [‘The Dark Art: My Undercover Life in Global Narco-Terrorism,’] he writes, ‘Almost everywhere in the world I worked, I had static with the CIA. We’re often working the same terrain, but with different legal and moral parameters … They exist completely in the shadows.’”
Among the groups profiting off the Afghan opium trade — and the failed efforts to eradicate it — is the mercenary group Academi, better known by its former name, Blackwater. In April, RT reported that Academi earned $569 million from counternarcotics contracts in Afghanistan.
“[T]he notorious company has been the biggest beneficiary of counternarcotics expenditure in the war-torn country,” RT wrote.
Watch “The Worst Narco-State in History? After 13-Year War, Afghanistan’s Opium Trade Floods the Globe” below:
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When I was in Panama I saw quite a few soldiers do the big PCS to Fort Leavenworth for cocaine smuggling.
The CIA does not like competition.
a container full of drugs replaces 20 containers full of dollares.
its all about logistics on the one side
and calming of the prolet masses on the other side of the coin
BULLSHIT. HILARIOUS BULLSHIT.
IF ONE CIA DUDE IS IN DRUG BUSINESS, POSSIBLE.
BUT HE HAS FELLOW AGENTS WATCHING. SO VERY UNLIKELY.
BUT THE CIA ACTIVELY RUNNING HERIOIN.
TOTAL BULLSHIT.
Just like the cocain that flooded the US when Reagan was president and the CIA was in Columbia.
The drug-running in the 1980s was managed by H.W. Bush (Vice President and Ex-CIA Director) and funneled through the Clintonista criminal portal in Arkansas.
The current Ovomit/Val-Jar CIA Director is a muscum convert, appointed by the Muscum regime squatting in the Rainbow House on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Why woud they NOT be running drugs and terrorists through our open borders and now flooding Europe with destruction and evil.
The Canadian border bleeds as many muscum invaders as the southern border bleeds hispanic parasite invaders.
We have been betrayed by our political leaders.
REPUGNI_KEN;
You should have used bold, capital letter, to protesteth too much.
Duh.....Does anybody really doubt that one of the most ethicless, immoral, government agencies in the history of the world, under the most heinous/lawless regime in the history of America, do something like house and manage the most powerful drug-running agency/cartel in history? C'mon, would the Ovomit/Val-Jar coven be part of something like that????
No doubt they turn their heads to allow it in hopes of mainintaining control over an area, but yeah, I agree they aren't running it.
@Republ-Ken
I have first hand knowledge while at Danang in 71-72. Air America flights in every weekend.
You KNOW NOTHING about the real world, kid.
@Republ-Ken
I have first hand knowledge while at Danang in 71-72. Air America flights in every weekend.
You KNOW NOTHING about the real world, kid.
Oliver North is probably the middle man.
In the alternative news world it is common knowledge that the CIA has been running heroin out of Afghanistan using DOD transport aircraft through Turkey and German NATO air bases.
This was one of the chief goals of this war and has had nothing to do with terrorism as 9-11 was a CIA/Mossad Flase Flag operation.
Likewise, one of the main goals in the Vietnam war was to secure CIA heroin distribution points in the Golden Triangle of SE Asia.
The other main goal was to overwhelm Buddhist influence in the south with the migration of northern Catholics into the south.
The Buddhist influence was seen as a heretical threat to the Jesuit globalist agents of the Black Nobility, controlling the Catholic Church.
The Vietnam War was often referred to as Spelly's War because NY Archbishop Francis Spellman was the chief architect.
US forces, portrayed as "Democracy Heroes" was a colossal hoax similar to the Iraq War and many others. Just another lie from the United States of Deception sponsored by our hidden Zionist Globalist controllers.
see Eric Jon Phelps - Vatican Assassins, Jesuit Order, Knights of Malta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F31TmQ9GwU
You're trafficking in horseshit, but I don't think you do so deliberately.
There are about 3,000 Jesuit priests... they do not control the Catholic Church - at all... all this black nobility/jesuit shit {which is not to defend organized religion or a kid fucking clergy} is basically either deliberate disinfo or paranoid Zio-Protestant hate.
Jesuits dont even control their own colleges where there are probably more Jewish administrators than Jesuits at most.
That aside - Do you think a Catholic Archbishop was the chief architect of the Vietnam War??
Really?
You have to be either deliberately peddling disinfo [gatekeeping] or, frankly, a fucking idiot.
Spellman *supported* the war - doesn't mean he caused it or had influence, for fuck's sake. Pull it out of your ass, son.
Pope Paul VI on the other hand pled for peace at the UN when he came to NY where Spellman was Cardinal.
Knights of Malta? They are knights in the way "Sir Elton John" is a knight.
Believe what you want, but let me suggest to you this - sometimes people get so excited about discovering "secret" information {in the way people will assume an overheard whisper is a truthful statement - because, in essence, it is overheard}... that they NEGLECT to look at what is right in front of their eyes.
The agency has brought drugs into the country for decades including in the coffins of dead soldiers. None of it is new.
As for Phelps - if you have a moment, start here:
http://www.conspiracyworld.com/phelps_zionist_promoter.htm
I'm surprised you left out the freemasons.
Not only is the CIA is the biggest drug dealer in the world, the US even went to war for drugs.
The Taliban banned poppy growing. This was the real casus beli.
It goes further back too. See the Boxer Rebellion in China. Watch the movie Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen. The Brits aka Red Shield when not running slavery and wars ran or runs drugs.
HSBC under the old names laundered that money. NE USA WASPs were also involved in running opium in China.
I hope the Chinese and Russians remember that because that Afghan heroin also gets into Russia. I can understand why the Chinese sometimes call whites "devils." Between the Japanese and the shit from the zio-Anglos, they have a right to be pissed.
Rumours???
Hahaha, those tribal warlords were a CIA concoction to bulwark the tribal leagues against the Ideological Talibans; often people from poor families formed in the religious schools; not the sons of powerful feudal families, landlords of the feudal order (Loya Jirga) that the US admin used as bulwark against the Jihadist ideological plague.
A plague that the CIA had created along with Paki army surrogate ISI, its local lookalike, and which now bit the hands of the "new infidels".
The CIA used the opium trade to share the profits with their new local allies and also as source of money for their local "black operations" in the region of Uzbeki and Tajik ex-Soviet republics.
Those operations still flourish.
Lots of Jews and "Izzie Operatives" in the CIA!
The CIA is basically a well funded criminal organization.
And it is absolutely riddled with Israeli agents.
At DaNang in 71 the USAF Sergeants Association sponsored a girls orphanage outside of the gates. Guess who packaged our Thai Stick weed (opium cured) for us. Thats right. those girls
35 bucks a kilo.
Rust belt cities in West Virginia and New York are the new epicenters for Heroin use in the US. Heroin is actually cheaper that the RX fixes that MD's hand out
look at these articles:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/07/buff-a07.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/21/hero-a21.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/24/heroin-epidemic_n_4790898.html
Lebowski Englightenments for all.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/lebowski-enlightenments/
A friend of my wife's is Russian, came back from her daughter's funeral in Moscow a couple of years ago. Girl died of heroin OD. She told my wife that she had grown up with 15 families in Moscow, all middle-class professionals. Those families had lost 12 children to drugs.
The US has many explanations and excuses for each of its bad policies, but keeping the factions onboard in Afghanistan and causing Russia problems are prominent in the list for poppy.
Of course they can't resist smuggling, CIA, military, contractors. Have to keep their hand in, and spending money is always useful when you run out of the $Bs pallets of cash the US shipped in for everyone's walking around cash.
Everything you ever wanted to know
CIA and the Drug Business
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/09/10/cia-and-the-drug-business/
The Real Deal with Catherine Austin Fitts
Narco-Dollars For BeginnersHow The Money Works In The Illicit Drug Trade
Part 1 Narco Dollars For Dummies Part 2 Sam & Dave Do White Substances Part 3 The Ultimate New Business Cold Call Part 4 On Your Map Part 5 Getting Out of Narco Dollars HQ Part 6 Georgie And West Philadelphia Part 7 Dow Jones Up, Solari Index Down Part 8 Fast Food Franchise Pop Part 9 At the Heart of the Double Bind Part 10 Drugs as Currency Part 11 In Defense of American Drug Lords Part 12 We Have Met the Enemy and It is Us Part 13 Americans Love A Winnerhttp://solari.com/old-articles/scoop_narco_dummies.htm
It is incredibly labor intensive. Beside the Narco terrorists that run mexico demand that their slaves grow poppy instead of mota now. Afghani poppy makes no sense.
Dien Bien Phu
http://www.akha.org/content/drugwar/mccoy/24.htm
Watch out for getting your ass kicked for double crossing the growers. Now you know why the French marched an army into oblivion in the middle of no where for no real strategic reason.
Get it right!!! It's not Heroin that's being protected it's Oxycontin!!!! That's why we invaded to begin with!!!
Get it right!!! It's not Heroin that's being protected it's Oxycontin!!!! That's why we invaded to begin with!!!
In the 1960's, my cousin was sent to 'Korea' by the Army. He was fluent in Thai and Cambodian languages. They had him write a stack of letters home and then was sent to the SE Asian highlands. He figured out shortly that he was actually working with the CIA in their selection of which warlords would have the trade. He found a way to cut his 'tour'short, but did not speak of it until well into the 1980's. He confirmed that the book "Politics of Heroine in Southeast Asia" was a fair account. It worked there, why would the same agency not run the same game in southwest asia?
Earlier I thought that America is a terrorist state.
Now we realise that it is actually a Criminal State