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The Daily Courier
April 14, 2018
Facebook has two billion users, second only to heroin. Lamar Odom opened an organic pot business in L.A. ... CIA Director Mike Pompeo appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Friday for his Secretary of State confirmation hearings. He had a tough time convincing Democrats he wouldÃâà...
The New Daily
April 7, 2018
Dr Alfred McCoy first came to prominence in 1972 with his groundbreaking book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, which was ensured popularity after the CIA tried to ban it. Following a sojourn in Australia as a visiting academic, he wrote Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organised Crime in Australia.
Newsweek
April 6, 2018
"At least, if ever my airplane explodes, or if some roadside bomb explodes, maybe you can ask the CIA," he added. ... He has also threatened to have his own son killed if allegations of his links to the illegal drug trade proved to be true and, despite widespread concerns abroad, Duterte's hardline methodsÃâà...
Times of India
April 6, 2018
LUDHIANA: The crime investigating agency (CIA) of the Government Railway Police arrested another drug peddler with 500g opium at platform ... officer of CIA Staff, said acting on a tip-off, special checks were carried out on late evening hours during which police arrested the accused with the opium.
The Hill
March 22, 2018
Remember the $350,000 NSF spent asking if japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine? — Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 22, 2018Ãâà...
Times of India
March 21, 2018
LUDHIANA: Days after arresting a women drug peddler with 1 kg opium, crime invesigating agency of the government railway police have arrested ... The investigation officer of CIA staff Palwinder Singh said that on a tip-off, special checks were carried out on Monday evening at different city platforms.
Pravda
March 15, 2018
But the problem seems to be far from the number of drug rehabilitation centers in the country, which provides 93% of the world's opium. .... One of the hidden objectives of the war in Afghanistan was specifically to restore the CIA sponsored drug trade and exert direct control over the routes of the U$ 600Ãâà...
UrduPoint News
March 3, 2018
QUETTA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 03rd Mar, 2018 ):Loralai Police on Saturday arrested two drug peddlers and recovered 110 grams of heroin and 80 grams chars from their possession. On special directives of SP Noor Muhammad Bareach, CIA Police held different operations against drugÃâà...
The Guardian
March 3, 2018
By the time Andrey Kovalchuk stepped off a Cessna in Buenos Aires in late 2017, authorities had already found and replaced the $60m in cocaine he ... But he claimed they contained coffee, alcohol and gifts, and that the drugs were planted there later by the CIA, in an attempt to embarrass the RussianÃâà...
Newsweek
March 1, 2018
A Russian man accused of trying to smuggle about 900 pounds of cocaine from Argentina to Russia said the CIA was behind the massive drug-trafficking operation and that he has been set up. The suspect, Andrei Kovalchuk, is the man authorities accuse of being the mastermind behind the appearance ofÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 21, 2018
The Reagan administration and the CIA also collaborated with Nicaraguan cocaine traffickers to support the Contras led to the “crack” epidemic of the 1980's. Crack became a nightmare within the U.S especially for the African-American community. The “crack epidemic”began in Los Angeles, California.
NPR
February 14, 2018
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Steve Coll, dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, about his new book, Directorate S: The C.I.A and ... The title is "Directorate S: The C.I.A. And America's Secret Wars In Afghanistan And Pakistan, 2001-2016." When I ... They can self-finance through the drug trade.
Center for Research on Globalization
February 12, 2018
Confirmed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Soviet forces were fighting the Al Qaeda mercenaries who had been recruited by the CIA. Amply documented, the recruitment, training and indoctrination of the Mujahideen was financed by the drug trade which was supported covertly by the CIA. The terrorists wereÃâà...
Salon
February 11, 2018
The flipside of messianic fantasy is of course paranoid delusion, which Bowie also displayed in spades. He imagined one of his advisers was a CIA agent; a backing singer was apparently a vampire. During one interview, Bowie suddenly leapt up and pulled down the blind: “I've got to do this,” he jabbered.
Center for Research on Globalization
February 3, 2018
“CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax. Across the border in Pakistan, Afghan leaders and local syndicates under the protection of Pakistan Intelligence operated hundreds ofÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
A man the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claims was behind an alleged attempt to smuggle nearly 400 kilograms of cocaine from Argentina to Moscow is claiming he is the victim of a set-up by U.S. intelligence and Argentinian police, Russian media report. The claim made by Andrei Kovalchuk'sÃâà...
