Narcotics trade = $1 trillion per annum. That's a lot of off-the-books financing.
A flashback to the Golden Triangle of 30-40 years ago can show you how it's done:
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Laos - a CIA fiefdom - was a principal Opium producer under the nominal control of General Vang Pao – leader of the Meo tribesman fighting the CIA’s secret war. Vang Pao would collect raw Opium grown throughout Northern Laos and transport it aboard the CIA’s “Air America” helicopters to Long Thien. A massive, sprawling US built complex, Long Thien was known as “Spook Heaven” by some, or “Alternate 20” by others. It was here that General Pao’s raw Opium was processed into top grade No 4 China White heroin. At this point, direct CIA involvement in the “product” ceased. Meanwhile, the CIA provided Vang Pao with his own airline known to insiders as “Air Opium,” that would transport it to Saigon, landing at the giant US military Ton Sohn Nut Air Base. Thereafter part of the bulk was divvied up among Quang’s network for sale to US servicemen hooked on the drug. The rest was shipped to the Corsican syndicate in Marseilles for delivery to Cuba – a transhipment point controlled by Mafia boss Santos Trafficante - and thence to the United States. A regular variation of the delivery route occurred when sealed bags of Heroin were stitched inside the dead bodies of GI’s returning home for military burial.
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Following the US backed invasion of Cambodia in May 1970, another Heroin pipeline was established. Previously inaccessible regions of Cambodia ideal for Opium cultivation were immediately brought on-line. The smuggling pipeline was operated by the Vietnamese Navy who had established bases at Phonom Penh and throughout the Mekong river. Within a week of the Cambodian incursion, an armada of Vietnamese and US Navy craft – totalling 140 vessels – under the command of Captain Nyugen Thaanh Chau crossed into Cambodia. This was “hailed as a ‘tactical coup’ and a great ‘military humanitarian fleet,’” the armada immediately went to work smuggling “vast quantities of Opium and Heroin into South Vietnam.”<13> Said to be the biggest pusher in South Vietnam, General Quang - following the US withdrawal from Vietnam – quietly relocated to Montreal, Canada, via the US Army’s military base, Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. Quang’s entry to Canada is said to have resulted from quiet but intense pressure from the United States government.
The apparent face-value dichotomy between the CIA’s international, decades long dope trade and the Drug Enforcement Agencies (DEA) “war on drugs,” is illusory. During a radio interview in 1991, historian Alfred McCoy outlined what he called “… the institutional relationship between the DEA and the CIA.” Back in the 1930’s the forerunner of the DEA – the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) was established to curtail the use and sale of narcotics. The FBN was the only US agency that had agents working in covert roles prior to WW11. With the arrival of WW11, key agents from the FBN were transferred to the newly established Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – fore-runner of the CIA – to teach OSS personnel the “clandestine arts.” This relationship continues to present times, McCoy states. The result is that where the CIA are running drug operations in various parts of the world, the DEA officially goes to sleep<14>.
This has led to the realisation that the DEA is principally tasked with prohibiting the flow of drugs from other than CIA “approved” sources - and that successive US "war on drugs" programmes are, de facto, engaged in killing off the competition. Whether this is purposeful policy or not, the result is clearly the same. Taken to its logical conclusion, CIA approved and protected traffickers will increasingly gain greater and greater control over the global dope business, making the US government the biggest dope peddler in the world. Meanwhile, some believe this has already occurred and was always part of the long-term plans drawn up by covert policy planners, as they cast jealous eyes toward the planets raw materials – of which narcotics is one of the most profitable.
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