You're a usefull idiot Spud for repeating the corporate media lie.
When you accuse someone of lying it's prolly best if you indicate specifically wot you thought the lie was otherwise folk are likely to dismiss you as just a crank.
The CIA is the largest smuggler of Afghan herion.
The American domestic political agenda assures that the DEA fight a never ending "war" on drugs while a cynical realpolitik National Security POV dictates that the CIA are complicit in protecting and profiting from the same drug cartels that the DEA fight not just in Afghanistan but around the world.
This is also true of other intelligence services around the globe including MI5 and MI6.
This is done in order to finance covert ops without leaving a governmental paper trail, in order to make contacts within the organized crime community for intel purposes and to prevent the other guys from doing so.
The CIA profit from their complicity in the heroin trade in Afghanistan but they do not control it.
They protect it by turning a blind eye and receive a piece of the action by doing so.
The plan of shipping heroin in caskets from a US warzone overseas back to the US has been used before but not by the CIA as far as Spud can tell.
The largely successful attempt to curb heroin production in Afghanistan back in 2000 produced an estimated 90% reduction in the cultivation and processing of the poppy plants.
Since the invasion and occupation in the production has again soared to and past previous levels. The media line is that all the proceeds are going to the Taliban. The hard core internut conspiracy sites say it's all going to the CIA. Spud thinks it's a little bit of both plus the Druglords within the US installed Afghani government.
The massive smuggling operation charge you argue while interesting and an intrawebz staple remains largely unproven.
Be Well.
