I appreciate your response and yes my comment was the very short version of the story.
I however posit that the CIA knew exactly what they were doing, and that is just the tip of the iceberg, and they never stopped being involved in the drug trade to fund black operations, off the books, and to enrich themselves I’m sure.
Afghanistan Heroin for instance. 100% I would bet the CIA was involved selling it.
That when they go after traffickers, they are going after the rival ones not in bed with them. As they are doing now.
I can’t prove that obviously, I am working mostly off that guy’s expose in the what was it, san jose mercury times, that the government leaded on to retract the article, and the seattle times published it, and provides it to this day, (on their now paywalled paper.) The author famously committed one of the worst cases of suicide ohio cops have ever seen, shooting himself twice in the back of the head.
There is another thing of note to mention in passing, one of the first big cocaine smugglers that got busted when the colombians started taking it into florida, forget his name, later got bailed out by the CIA, of prison, and started working for them, idk in the 90s I think.
Yeah, the guy they caught was Eugene Hassenfuss, whom I mentioned. He has his own Wikipedia entry.
You absolutely make a valid point, and our government definitely criminalized drugs in an attempt to control certain populations by incarcerating them in massive numbers. Why wouldn’t they also work the strategy on the other end, and get them hooked now, to make it easier to arrest them later?
Several drug waves were proceeded by a war. Heroin became big in the 60s because it was being smuggled over on military transports. Then it shifted to Cocaine in the 80s because of Iran-Contra, and then back to heroin because of Afghanistan. I say Several, because at least one drug wave, the Opiate Epidemic, was engineered by the Sackler family, to addict as many people as possible for profits. No war involved there.
Weed was always popular, and never attached to a war. It’s just too big and bulky to smuggle quietly.
LSD was primarily supplied by Owsley Stanley, an audio engineer for the Grateful Dead, and also the first private individual to create LSD. He supposedly made over 500 grams, amounting to about 5 million doses, and probably the vast majority of all the LSD going around in the 60s and 70s.
I want to believe our government would never do anything that nefarious, but from what we’ve learned, they’ve been doing shit that is beyond our wildest imaginations. Literally anything is possible with those psychopaths.
I appreciate your response and yes my comment was the very short version of the story.
I however posit that the CIA knew exactly what they were doing, and that is just the tip of the iceberg, and they never stopped being involved in the drug trade to fund black operations, off the books, and to enrich themselves I’m sure.
Afghanistan Heroin for instance. 100% I would bet the CIA was involved selling it.
That when they go after traffickers, they are going after the rival ones not in bed with them. As they are doing now.
I can’t prove that obviously, I am working mostly off that guy’s expose in the what was it, san jose mercury times, that the government leaded on to retract the article, and the seattle times published it, and provides it to this day, (on their now paywalled paper.) The author famously committed one of the worst cases of suicide ohio cops have ever seen, shooting himself twice in the back of the head.
There is another thing of note to mention in passing, one of the first big cocaine smugglers that got busted when the colombians started taking it into florida, forget his name, later got bailed out by the CIA, of prison, and started working for them, idk in the 90s I think.
Yeah, the guy they caught was Eugene Hassenfuss, whom I mentioned. He has his own Wikipedia entry.
You absolutely make a valid point, and our government definitely criminalized drugs in an attempt to control certain populations by incarcerating them in massive numbers. Why wouldn’t they also work the strategy on the other end, and get them hooked now, to make it easier to arrest them later?
Several drug waves were proceeded by a war. Heroin became big in the 60s because it was being smuggled over on military transports. Then it shifted to Cocaine in the 80s because of Iran-Contra, and then back to heroin because of Afghanistan. I say Several, because at least one drug wave, the Opiate Epidemic, was engineered by the Sackler family, to addict as many people as possible for profits. No war involved there.
Weed was always popular, and never attached to a war. It’s just too big and bulky to smuggle quietly.
LSD was primarily supplied by Owsley Stanley, an audio engineer for the Grateful Dead, and also the first private individual to create LSD. He supposedly made over 500 grams, amounting to about 5 million doses, and probably the vast majority of all the LSD going around in the 60s and 70s.
I want to believe our government would never do anything that nefarious, but from what we’ve learned, they’ve been doing shit that is beyond our wildest imaginations. Literally anything is possible with those psychopaths.