Heroin came from Indochina in the 60s & 70s, when the CIA had a heavy presence there.

Production moved to Afghanistan in the 80s, when the CIA had a heavy presence there.

Cocaine smuggling thru Central America exploded in the 80s, when the CIA had heavy presence there.
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The Panama branch of the Bank of Credit & Commerce Int’l, the notorious CIA-connected drug money laundering outfit, was a conduit for CIA money to Manuel Noriega, who provided weapons & $ to the contras. All the major Colombian drug lords had accounts at BCCI, too.
The president of the Panama City branch of BCCI was the son of the head of Pakistani intel (ISI), which was overseeing distribution of the heroin trade out of Afghanistan at the time (and funneling drug money back to the mujahadeen fighters).
So when you hear “drug war”, don’t think of a war on drugs, but a covert war financed by drugs.

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