mojo
05-12-2008, 11:24 PM
You mean theres a War on Drugs!!
Yes there is a War on Drugs, not one that you would expect though.
The war is intelligence agencies world wide fighting tooth and nail to keep their gold mine of black money, led ostensibly by the CIA.
This is from 2002 but still relative to the ongoing "pretence" of a war on drugs (http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/28/95240.shtml).
Several sources inside Capitol Hill noted that the CIA opposes the destruction of the Afghan opium supply because to do so might destabilize the Pakistani government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. According to these sources, Pakistani intelligence had threatened to overthrow President Musharraf if the crops were destroyed.
"The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences – the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970s is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favorite business," noted an allied intelligence official who works closely with U.S. law enforcement.
What Will Congress Do About New CIA-Drug Revelations? (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/19/ED58466.DTL)
Meanwhile the reports opened the doors on worse scandals. According to the reports, the CIA made conscious use of major traffickers as agents, contractors and assets. It maintained good relations with Contras it knew to be working with drug traffickers. It protected traffickers which the Justice Department was trying to prosecute, sometimes by suppressing or denying the existence of information.
This protection extended to major Drug Enforcement Agency targets considered to be among the top smugglers of cocaine into this country. Perhaps the most egregious example is that of the Honduran trafficker Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. Matta had been identified by the DEA in 1985 as the most important member of a consortium moving a major share (perhaps a third, perhaps more than half) of all the cocaine from Colombia to the United States. The DEA also knew that Matta was behind the kidnapping of a DEA agent in Mexico, Enrique Camarena, who was subsequently tortured and murdered.
A public enemy? Yes. But Matta was also an ally of the CIA. Matta's airline, SETCO, was recorded in U.S. files as a drug-smuggling airline. It was also the chief airline with which the CIA contracted to fly supplies to the Contra camps in Honduras. When the local DEA office began to move against Matta in 1983, it was shut down. Though Matta's whereabouts were well- known, the United States did not arrest and extradite him until 1988, a few days after Congress ended support for the Contras.
Link to the video: Well worth a look, only lasts for about 5 - 10 minutes.
Crack The CIA (http://www.gnn.tv/videos/video.php?id=1)
Tracking the covert history of CIA drug smuggling from Nicaragua to Arkansas and South Central Los Angeles, GNN sheds light on the darkest secret of the Agency’s operational directorate. Cut to the ambient Hip Hop loops of DJ Trek-e, Crack The CIA features explosive footage of Mike Ruppert’s historical televised confrontation with CIA Director John Deutch.
Don’t blink!
A good read on the MENA AFB (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.html) expose with many links to published articles and congressional records.
So this is all old news right. Wrong.
Nothing has changed. Hell it may have even gotten worse.
Opium production in Afghanistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Production_in_Afghanistan)
Afghanistan is, as of March, 2008, the greatest illicit (in Western World standards) opium producer in the world, before Burma (Myanmar), part of the so-called "Golden Triangle". Opium production in Afghanistan has been a significant problem (or a significant business) for Afghanistan, especially since the downfall of the Taliban in 2001. Based on UNODC data, there has been more opium poppy cultivation in each of the past four growing seasons (2004-2007), than in any one year during Taliban rule. Also, more land is now used for opium in Afghanistan, than for coca cultivation in Latin America. In 2007, 93% of the opiates on the world market originated in Afghanistan.[1]
The Taliban were anti drugs, in particular opium. Wrong.
They were protecting an investment, ahh, one that Osama Bin Laden and the CIA helped them to takeover.
Afghanistan saw a bumper opium crop of 4,600 metric tons in 1999[9], which was the height of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. According to a Swiss security publication, 'SicherheitsForum' (April 2006, pp:56-57), this resulted in supply exceeding demand and a drop in the high-street price of heroin and morphine in the West, endangering the profitability of European drug smugglers. To stop this trend, Western international drug barons demanded a reduction in supply.[10]
Afghanistan briefly witnessed one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns when Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar declared that growing poppies is un-Islamic. Some historians say the Taliban cynically cut production to increase the values of their own stockpiles, but the effects in the fields was dramatic: a year's crop was almost entirely wiped out.[11]
Some Afghani's that were in custody in Guantanamo. Why?
Because they were against the illegal drug trade in their country and possibly new of intelligence agencies involvement?
Why else would these guy's get locked away?
Sahib Rohullah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahib_Rohullah_Wakil)
The following primary factors favor release or transfer:
a. The detainee fought jihad against the Russians and fought against the Taliban and al Qaida at Tora Bora.
b. The detainee supported the Northern Alliance in their efforts to defeat the Taliban, al Qaida, and Usama Bin Laden.
c. In 1997 or 1998, the detainee traveled to Mazar–e-Sharif [sic] to visit with Massoud.
d. The detainee traveled twice to Tajikistan in 1998 in connection with Masood and the Northern Alliance.
e. The detainee traveled to Cyprus three times in 1999 to attend international conferences organized by influential expatriate Afghans to increase resistance to the Taliban.
f. The detainee states that he never worked with the Arabs or against the Americans.
Khandan khadir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khandan_Kadir), according to Khandan Kadir, after the Taliban were overthrown he was appointed the local director of the anti-drug branch of the National Department of Security .
The following primary factors favor release or transfer:
a. The detainee claimed he has never attended any military schools or received any military training.
b. The detainee was very forthcoming during the interview. The detainee is of above average intelligence and cooperated throughout. The detainee strongly believes that he has been wrongfully imprisoned, because an individual threatened to have the detainee arrested by the Americans.
c. The detainee related that he has never been a member of any terrorist organization. The only terrorist organization that he has knowledge of is the Taliban.
d. The detainee stated that he is against the Taliban because they do not build or help his community by building roads, schools, lighting, etc. The Taliban terrorizes the people and have destroyed schools.
e. The detainee was asked about the Usama bin Laden tape found in his house. The detainee claimed it was not a tape but only a cover from a tape. The detainee claimed that his enemy Pasha Khan left the tape cover at his house.
f. The detainee related he worked with Americans before his detainment. The detainee identified a journalist/reporter whom later stated his worked for American Intelligence.
g. The detainee stated, when American Forces entered the country, he was approached and worked with Americans who said they worked for American Intelligence. The Americans stayed at his house for 15 days before moving to the airport.
h. When asked his thoughts on Afghanistan's future, the detainee replied his goal was was to assist in the development of Afghanistan. The detainee wants better resources, schools, roads and broad-based, established democratic government. Additionally, the detainee would also like to see Afghanistan develop relationships with foreign countries.
i. The detainee seems to not like the Taliban, al Qaida or the Jama'at Tablighi. The detainee volunteered to work with Americans against these groups if could return to Afghanistan.
j. The detainee is not upset with the United States, but is frustrated with the methods used to capture people. The detainee claims other Afghans who have a grudge against someone else are just accusing people because of personal rivalries and are making up stories about people who are actually innocent. The detainee claims that a person by the name of Jan Baz turned him in to United States Forces for a reward.
k. The detainee claimed to be a Jama'at Islami member. The detainee explained that the group opposes the Taliban Forces. The Jama'at Islami used to pass out anti-al Qaida posters offering monetary rewards in exchange for information to the schools in the area.
l. In the spring of 2002, the detainee stated he was offered a job with the new Afghanistan government of Karzai. The detainee also state that he was made the director of the 7th Division of the Afghanistan National Security Office in Khowst, Afghanistan. The detainee claims a letter of appointment to this post is among his belongings held by United States Forces. His responsibilities included monitoring media, hospitals, schools and tracking narcotics trafficking.
Faizulluh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faizullah), a farmer, he was basically arrested and sent to guantanamo because he complained about opium growers using all the farmers water.
Saifullah Paracha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saifullah_Paracha)
A Pakistani business-man who testified he invested $1 million in a project to provide alternate jobs for those employed in the poppy industry
And lots of mysteriously dead whistleblowers.
Gary Webb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb)
Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly smuggled cocaine into the U.S. which was then distributed as crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. Webb also alleged that this influx of Nicaraguan supplied cocaine sparked and significantly fueled the widespread crack epidemic that swept through urban areas. According to Webb, the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of drugs into the U.S. by the Contra personnel and directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras.
Webb's reporting generated a large controversy and the Mercury News backed away from the story, effectively ending Webb's career as a mainstream media journalist. In 2004, Webb was found dead from two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head, a victim of an apparent suicide.
Barry Seal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal)
Adler Berriman Seal, or "Barry Seal" (July 16, 1939–February 19, 1986) was a pilot with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a drug smuggler (again, with the help of the CIA) turned Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant. After a 1984 arrest in [[Fort Lauderdale,
On February 19, 1986, Barry Seal was assassinated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in front of a branch of the Salvation Army on Airline Hwy. As he sat in his Cadillac, two men carrying machine guns approached him. One of them then fired two shots into his head, killing Seal instantly.
Read this book by Alfred McCoy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin:_CIA_Complicity_in_the_Glob al_Drug_Trade).
Its most groundbreaking feature was its documentation of CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade; along with McCoy's Congressional testimony, its initially controversial thesis has gained a degree of mainstream acceptance. The central idea is that at the time, the vast majority of heroin produced was produced in the Golden Triangle, from which:
"It is transported in the planes, vehicles, and other conveyances supplied by the United States. The profit from the trade has been going into the pockets of some of our best friends in Southeast Asia. The charge concludes with the statement that the traffic is being carried on with the indifference if not the closed-eye compliance of some American officials and there is no likelihood of its being shut down in the foreseeable future."[2]
Air America in particular was used for this transport. Further, this heroin supply is responsible for the parlous state of the Army in Vietnam: "By mid 1971 Army medical officers were estimating that about 10 to 15 per cent... of the lower ranking enlisted men serving in Vietnam were heroin users."[3]
Having interviewed Maurice Belleux, former head of the French SDECE intelligence agency, Mc Coy also uncovered parts of the French Connection scheme, as the French military agency had financed all of its covert operations, during the Indochina War, from its control of the Indochina drug trade [4].
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (pdf) (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/AFG07_ExSum_web.pdf)
In 2007, Afghanistan cultivated 193,000 hectares of opium poppies, an
increase of 17% over last year. The amount of Afghan land used for opium is now
larger than the corresponding total for coca cultivation in Latin America (Colombia,
Peru and Bolivia combined).
What better way to protect your investment than to have a hand in passing on intelligence to domestic agencies, put them onto your rivals whilst clearing the way for your own agents. Clever huh.
It's like putting an addict in charge of a dispensary.
CIA transnational anti-crime and anti-drug activities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_transnational_anti-crime_and_anti-drug_activities).
Two offices of the CIA Directorate of Intelligence have analytical responsibilities in this area. The Office of Transnational Issues[1] applies unique functional expertise to assess existing and emerging threats to US national security and provides the most senior US policymakers, military planners, and law enforcement with analysis, warning, and crisis support.
The CIA Crime and Narcotics Center[2] researches information on international narcotics trafficking and organized crime for policymakers and the law enforcement community. Since the CIA has no domestic police authority, it sends its analytic information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other law enforcement organizations, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury (OFAC).
Another part of the CIA, the National Clandestine Service, collects human intelligence HUMINT in these areas.
Is it any coincidence that the Opium addiction problem in Iran has risen dramatically during the past few years. ;)
More to come.......
Yes there is a War on Drugs, not one that you would expect though.
The war is intelligence agencies world wide fighting tooth and nail to keep their gold mine of black money, led ostensibly by the CIA.
This is from 2002 but still relative to the ongoing "pretence" of a war on drugs (http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/28/95240.shtml).
Several sources inside Capitol Hill noted that the CIA opposes the destruction of the Afghan opium supply because to do so might destabilize the Pakistani government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf. According to these sources, Pakistani intelligence had threatened to overthrow President Musharraf if the crops were destroyed.
"The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences – the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970s is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favorite business," noted an allied intelligence official who works closely with U.S. law enforcement.
What Will Congress Do About New CIA-Drug Revelations? (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/06/19/ED58466.DTL)
Meanwhile the reports opened the doors on worse scandals. According to the reports, the CIA made conscious use of major traffickers as agents, contractors and assets. It maintained good relations with Contras it knew to be working with drug traffickers. It protected traffickers which the Justice Department was trying to prosecute, sometimes by suppressing or denying the existence of information.
This protection extended to major Drug Enforcement Agency targets considered to be among the top smugglers of cocaine into this country. Perhaps the most egregious example is that of the Honduran trafficker Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros. Matta had been identified by the DEA in 1985 as the most important member of a consortium moving a major share (perhaps a third, perhaps more than half) of all the cocaine from Colombia to the United States. The DEA also knew that Matta was behind the kidnapping of a DEA agent in Mexico, Enrique Camarena, who was subsequently tortured and murdered.
A public enemy? Yes. But Matta was also an ally of the CIA. Matta's airline, SETCO, was recorded in U.S. files as a drug-smuggling airline. It was also the chief airline with which the CIA contracted to fly supplies to the Contra camps in Honduras. When the local DEA office began to move against Matta in 1983, it was shut down. Though Matta's whereabouts were well- known, the United States did not arrest and extradite him until 1988, a few days after Congress ended support for the Contras.
Link to the video: Well worth a look, only lasts for about 5 - 10 minutes.
Crack The CIA (http://www.gnn.tv/videos/video.php?id=1)
Tracking the covert history of CIA drug smuggling from Nicaragua to Arkansas and South Central Los Angeles, GNN sheds light on the darkest secret of the Agency’s operational directorate. Cut to the ambient Hip Hop loops of DJ Trek-e, Crack The CIA features explosive footage of Mike Ruppert’s historical televised confrontation with CIA Director John Deutch.
Don’t blink!
A good read on the MENA AFB (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.html) expose with many links to published articles and congressional records.
So this is all old news right. Wrong.
Nothing has changed. Hell it may have even gotten worse.
Opium production in Afghanistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Production_in_Afghanistan)
Afghanistan is, as of March, 2008, the greatest illicit (in Western World standards) opium producer in the world, before Burma (Myanmar), part of the so-called "Golden Triangle". Opium production in Afghanistan has been a significant problem (or a significant business) for Afghanistan, especially since the downfall of the Taliban in 2001. Based on UNODC data, there has been more opium poppy cultivation in each of the past four growing seasons (2004-2007), than in any one year during Taliban rule. Also, more land is now used for opium in Afghanistan, than for coca cultivation in Latin America. In 2007, 93% of the opiates on the world market originated in Afghanistan.[1]
The Taliban were anti drugs, in particular opium. Wrong.
They were protecting an investment, ahh, one that Osama Bin Laden and the CIA helped them to takeover.
Afghanistan saw a bumper opium crop of 4,600 metric tons in 1999[9], which was the height of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. According to a Swiss security publication, 'SicherheitsForum' (April 2006, pp:56-57), this resulted in supply exceeding demand and a drop in the high-street price of heroin and morphine in the West, endangering the profitability of European drug smugglers. To stop this trend, Western international drug barons demanded a reduction in supply.[10]
Afghanistan briefly witnessed one of the world's most successful anti-drug campaigns when Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar declared that growing poppies is un-Islamic. Some historians say the Taliban cynically cut production to increase the values of their own stockpiles, but the effects in the fields was dramatic: a year's crop was almost entirely wiped out.[11]
Some Afghani's that were in custody in Guantanamo. Why?
Because they were against the illegal drug trade in their country and possibly new of intelligence agencies involvement?
Why else would these guy's get locked away?
Sahib Rohullah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahib_Rohullah_Wakil)
The following primary factors favor release or transfer:
a. The detainee fought jihad against the Russians and fought against the Taliban and al Qaida at Tora Bora.
b. The detainee supported the Northern Alliance in their efforts to defeat the Taliban, al Qaida, and Usama Bin Laden.
c. In 1997 or 1998, the detainee traveled to Mazar–e-Sharif [sic] to visit with Massoud.
d. The detainee traveled twice to Tajikistan in 1998 in connection with Masood and the Northern Alliance.
e. The detainee traveled to Cyprus three times in 1999 to attend international conferences organized by influential expatriate Afghans to increase resistance to the Taliban.
f. The detainee states that he never worked with the Arabs or against the Americans.
Khandan khadir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khandan_Kadir), according to Khandan Kadir, after the Taliban were overthrown he was appointed the local director of the anti-drug branch of the National Department of Security .
The following primary factors favor release or transfer:
a. The detainee claimed he has never attended any military schools or received any military training.
b. The detainee was very forthcoming during the interview. The detainee is of above average intelligence and cooperated throughout. The detainee strongly believes that he has been wrongfully imprisoned, because an individual threatened to have the detainee arrested by the Americans.
c. The detainee related that he has never been a member of any terrorist organization. The only terrorist organization that he has knowledge of is the Taliban.
d. The detainee stated that he is against the Taliban because they do not build or help his community by building roads, schools, lighting, etc. The Taliban terrorizes the people and have destroyed schools.
e. The detainee was asked about the Usama bin Laden tape found in his house. The detainee claimed it was not a tape but only a cover from a tape. The detainee claimed that his enemy Pasha Khan left the tape cover at his house.
f. The detainee related he worked with Americans before his detainment. The detainee identified a journalist/reporter whom later stated his worked for American Intelligence.
g. The detainee stated, when American Forces entered the country, he was approached and worked with Americans who said they worked for American Intelligence. The Americans stayed at his house for 15 days before moving to the airport.
h. When asked his thoughts on Afghanistan's future, the detainee replied his goal was was to assist in the development of Afghanistan. The detainee wants better resources, schools, roads and broad-based, established democratic government. Additionally, the detainee would also like to see Afghanistan develop relationships with foreign countries.
i. The detainee seems to not like the Taliban, al Qaida or the Jama'at Tablighi. The detainee volunteered to work with Americans against these groups if could return to Afghanistan.
j. The detainee is not upset with the United States, but is frustrated with the methods used to capture people. The detainee claims other Afghans who have a grudge against someone else are just accusing people because of personal rivalries and are making up stories about people who are actually innocent. The detainee claims that a person by the name of Jan Baz turned him in to United States Forces for a reward.
k. The detainee claimed to be a Jama'at Islami member. The detainee explained that the group opposes the Taliban Forces. The Jama'at Islami used to pass out anti-al Qaida posters offering monetary rewards in exchange for information to the schools in the area.
l. In the spring of 2002, the detainee stated he was offered a job with the new Afghanistan government of Karzai. The detainee also state that he was made the director of the 7th Division of the Afghanistan National Security Office in Khowst, Afghanistan. The detainee claims a letter of appointment to this post is among his belongings held by United States Forces. His responsibilities included monitoring media, hospitals, schools and tracking narcotics trafficking.
Faizulluh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faizullah), a farmer, he was basically arrested and sent to guantanamo because he complained about opium growers using all the farmers water.
Saifullah Paracha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saifullah_Paracha)
A Pakistani business-man who testified he invested $1 million in a project to provide alternate jobs for those employed in the poppy industry
And lots of mysteriously dead whistleblowers.
Gary Webb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb)
Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly smuggled cocaine into the U.S. which was then distributed as crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. Webb also alleged that this influx of Nicaraguan supplied cocaine sparked and significantly fueled the widespread crack epidemic that swept through urban areas. According to Webb, the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of drugs into the U.S. by the Contra personnel and directly aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras.
Webb's reporting generated a large controversy and the Mercury News backed away from the story, effectively ending Webb's career as a mainstream media journalist. In 2004, Webb was found dead from two self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head, a victim of an apparent suicide.
Barry Seal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal)
Adler Berriman Seal, or "Barry Seal" (July 16, 1939–February 19, 1986) was a pilot with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a drug smuggler (again, with the help of the CIA) turned Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant. After a 1984 arrest in [[Fort Lauderdale,
On February 19, 1986, Barry Seal was assassinated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in front of a branch of the Salvation Army on Airline Hwy. As he sat in his Cadillac, two men carrying machine guns approached him. One of them then fired two shots into his head, killing Seal instantly.
Read this book by Alfred McCoy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin:_CIA_Complicity_in_the_Glob al_Drug_Trade).
Its most groundbreaking feature was its documentation of CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade; along with McCoy's Congressional testimony, its initially controversial thesis has gained a degree of mainstream acceptance. The central idea is that at the time, the vast majority of heroin produced was produced in the Golden Triangle, from which:
"It is transported in the planes, vehicles, and other conveyances supplied by the United States. The profit from the trade has been going into the pockets of some of our best friends in Southeast Asia. The charge concludes with the statement that the traffic is being carried on with the indifference if not the closed-eye compliance of some American officials and there is no likelihood of its being shut down in the foreseeable future."[2]
Air America in particular was used for this transport. Further, this heroin supply is responsible for the parlous state of the Army in Vietnam: "By mid 1971 Army medical officers were estimating that about 10 to 15 per cent... of the lower ranking enlisted men serving in Vietnam were heroin users."[3]
Having interviewed Maurice Belleux, former head of the French SDECE intelligence agency, Mc Coy also uncovered parts of the French Connection scheme, as the French military agency had financed all of its covert operations, during the Indochina War, from its control of the Indochina drug trade [4].
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (pdf) (http://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/AFG07_ExSum_web.pdf)
In 2007, Afghanistan cultivated 193,000 hectares of opium poppies, an
increase of 17% over last year. The amount of Afghan land used for opium is now
larger than the corresponding total for coca cultivation in Latin America (Colombia,
Peru and Bolivia combined).
What better way to protect your investment than to have a hand in passing on intelligence to domestic agencies, put them onto your rivals whilst clearing the way for your own agents. Clever huh.
It's like putting an addict in charge of a dispensary.
CIA transnational anti-crime and anti-drug activities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_transnational_anti-crime_and_anti-drug_activities).
Two offices of the CIA Directorate of Intelligence have analytical responsibilities in this area. The Office of Transnational Issues[1] applies unique functional expertise to assess existing and emerging threats to US national security and provides the most senior US policymakers, military planners, and law enforcement with analysis, warning, and crisis support.
The CIA Crime and Narcotics Center[2] researches information on international narcotics trafficking and organized crime for policymakers and the law enforcement community. Since the CIA has no domestic police authority, it sends its analytic information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other law enforcement organizations, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury (OFAC).
Another part of the CIA, the National Clandestine Service, collects human intelligence HUMINT in these areas.
Is it any coincidence that the Opium addiction problem in Iran has risen dramatically during the past few years. ;)
More to come.......