FROM FLATBUSH TO THE STREETS OF KANDAHAR

U.S. backed-drug gangs fight Taliban’s traffickers in endless turf battle
by Joe Lauria

The revelation that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother Wali is on the Central Intelligence Agency payroll and is a known drug lord has complicated President Obama’s already torturous internal debate on Afghanistan and dredged up questions about long-standing ties between the C.I.A. and illegal drugs.

From Laos to Nicaragua to Afghanistan, and many places in between, the C.I.A has a long history of links to illegal drugs as a means to buy allies and fund off-the-books missions.

The C.I.A first backed Afghan drug lords in 1979.

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