Thread by @GeorgeProust

"Ever since we left Afghanistan, the opium harvest isn't what it used to be. Or - somebody's taking a cut. And that's a mafia no-no."

"So we're going to take that airbase back. It's a lot easier to traffic heroin if you have your own airbase."

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"The CIA needs that cash flow. Remember in 2000 when the Taliban destroyed the entire opium crop? That wasn't nice. And it certainly hurt the CIA's secret budget. That's why we had to do 9/11."

"I'm not supposed to talk about that but I'm feeling kind of omnipotent now."

"Do you know how lucrative the heroin trade is? Big bucks."

"And it's so easy when you can traffic the shit straight from Bagram in a US military aircraft and take it to Germany or France or America."

"To another US airbase! It's foolproof. That Allen Dulles, he was a smart

guy. He started the whole thing back in 1947, right after the CIA was created. Been doing it ever since."

"You know Fort Bragg, right? Home of the 82nd Airborne? And that's where Mike Flynn was based. We just bring it straight into there and then we get it out to our Mafia

boys and they take care of the rest. The money then gets laundered thru JPMorgan (thanks Jamie!) and Deutsche Bank and others. Easy peasy."

"Except for the murders. We've had a lot of problems with some uppity soldiers at Bragg. They got a bit too curious and had to be

taken care of. Thank god we've got all those colonels and generals down there that know how to manage this sort of thing. The paperwork gets altered and the coroner signs off to call it a suicide instead."

"So I guess it isn't so easy peasy."

"Heck, there's books on this stuff but nobody reads anymore. Real shame. Or we have our MediaMafia distract and confuse everyone and move them along to the next distraction."

"The book "Operation Gladio" spells it all out. CIA, Mafia, Vatican Bank. Ha! I tell ya that was

brilliant. There aren't many people smarter than me but Allen Dulles might be one of them."

"And the other book, "The Politics of Heroin", boy, that makes it plain. It's right there on Amazon but nobody reads it. It only covers the 30's to 1974 but hey, do you think it

stopped there? You nitwit. It's too lucrative. Nobody is going to quit that business."

"And a 3rd book I should mention, "The Devil's Chessboard", that's all about Allen Dulles and the cabal that he worked with to get all this up and running. Eisenhower didn't have a clue.

Not a clue, I tell ya. But that Jack Kennedy, he didn't like it. Tried to shut it down because he didn't trust Dulles. Which he was right about."

"But he didn't act fast enough and Dulles took him out. Sad. He was a great president, with a beautiful wife."

"He didn't

know it was THAT big. Easily $100 billion. And it was paying a lot of salaries and making some very powerful men veeery rich. The entire Mafia. Sam Giancana especially. And most of the top guys at CIA."

"So they took him out. Pretty sloppy job. Boy did they have to

hustle to cover it up. But Dulles was able to keep it all tied to "the lone gunman" idea and the Media did the rest. Sure is good to have control of the Media - I've certainly learned that."

"I hope I haven't said too much. Oh well, it doesn't matter. John Roberts said I

can do anything, like run for a 3rd term. Which reminds me, it sure is good to have control of the judiciary too."

"You know, this is all covered in the Godfather. Great movies. I learned everything from those. And from Roy Cohn."

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