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Foreign Affairs

EdwardBernays

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3. Yep

Reply to unhappycamper (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 30, 2016, 09:57 AM

Jan 2016

Not only that but the CIA definitely helped smuggle into the US at least a tonne of cocaine from Venezuela. They also let a Venezuelan drug kingpin use their warehouses in Florida for storage and distro of many additional tonnes of coke.

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 22— A Federal grand jury in Miami has indicted a Venezuelan general who led a Central Intelligence Agency counter-narcotics program that put a ton of cocaine on the streets of the United States in 1990, Government officials said today."

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/23/us/venezuelan-general-indicted-in-cia-scheme.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm

And god knows how many other examples there are.

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Taliban control of Afghanistan strongest since US invasion [View all] unhappycamper Jan 2016 OP

Why wouldn't it be??? EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #1

For the longest time, I thought it was dubya's dick that got us into Afghanistan unhappycamper Jan 2016 #2

Yep EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #3

I forgot to mention that Afghanistan's opium production went down unhappycamper Jan 2016 #4

Sigh EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #5