
	by P.F. Louis
	February 01, 2012 
	
	from
	
	NaturalNews Website
	
	 
	
	 
	
	
	The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is outrageous when compared to the amount 
	of drug trafficking that benefits 
	the CIA and 
	international banking system.
	
	
	 
	
	The son of a convicted notorious mobster, 
	John Gotti Jr, when asked in court if the family still dealt drugs 
	cracked, 
	
		
		"No, we can't compete with the government."
	
	
	Today in Afghanistan, American troops have been 
	seen guarding poppy fields used to make heroin. 
	
	 
	
	Those fields were all but wiped out by 2001 when 
	the Taliban destroyed them and forbade that agricultural pursuit. Now 
	they're flourishing again after the American occupation.
	
	This doesn't make sense despite all the mainstream reports that American 
	troops are protecting the poppy farmers from the bad guys. 
	
	 
	
	Internet sites 
	such as Prison Planet, Info Wars, The Political Coffeehouse and others 
	report otherwise. They connect the CIA and US military to restarting the 
	poppy fields in Afghanistan in 2002, increasing poppy growth by over 650 
	percent. 
	
	 
	
	Who's telling it like it is?
 
	
	 
	
	 
	
	
	One way the CIA keeps 
	their drug trafficking hidden from public view
	
	
	The CIA's secret operations to influence journalism started in the 1950s by 
	infiltrating the media and bribing journalists to be operatives and assets 
	for the CIA. 
	
	 
	
	By 1976, then CIA director William Colby 
	reportedly bragged that 
	
	the CIA owned the press. Supposedly, 
	this too secret to name operation was coined "Operation Mockingbird" by 
	Deborah Davis in her book Katherine the Great.
	
	
	Operation Mockingbird worked well against prize winning 
	journalist Gary Webb when his newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, 
	ran his in depth series on CIA drug trafficking that flooded the USA to help 
	finance the CIA backed Nicaraguan Contras during the 1980s.
	
	Journalists all over the USA jumped on the series, claiming Webb's 
	journalism was shoddy. The newspaper had to recant and fire him, and Gary 
	Webb was black listed from mainstream journalism completely.
	
	Webb retaliated by having his book Dark Alliance published and making 
	the NY Times best seller list, forcing some of his critics to privately eat 
	crow after the fact.
	
	Despite the CIA's control of the press, a few Mexico and Central America 
	cocaine busts of plane cargoes and discoveries of large cocaine stashes on 
	crashed planes with CIA hired pilots flying them for front companies did hit 
	the mainstream news, albeit briefly.
	
	Remember the movie "Air 
	America?" It was based on
	
	an actual CIA owned front company 
	transporting tons of heroin from Southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle" poppy 
	fields during and after the Vietnam conflicts. 
	
	 
	
	Now Afghanistan and the "Golden Crescent" are 
	the featured opium/heroin conduit sources.
 
	
	 
	
	 
	
	
	Government and big 
	business using drug traffic profits is nothing new
	
	
	When the U.S. government made deals with the Cosa Nostra mafia to 
	help police ports and harbors during WW II, they breathed life into the 
	heroin trade. Eventually, Marseilles, France was set up by the Corsican 
	mafia to become the "French Connection" for heroin traffic.
	
	But opium trade history goes back further, to colonial times and early 
	America. That's when American shipping magnates used their fast Clipper 
	Ships to compete with England's monarch sanctioned dope running East India 
	Company for transporting opium to China.
	
	A few key players created family fortunes from the China opium trade that 
	exist today within some northeast America's "old money" families.
	
	Among the familiar family names, according to Wikipedia (source below) is 
	Forbes. Another source mentions
	
	Astor, a prominently wealthy philanthropic family around New York 
	today (Wiki source below). 
	
	 
	
	In those days, trafficking dope was a legitimate 
	business endeavor, immoral but not illegal. Now it is illegal as 
	well. 
	
	 
	
	Ironically, this allows the biggest illicit drug 
	providers to financially benefit the CIA and international banking.
 
	
	 
	
	 
	
	
	Sources
	
		
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			http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php 
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			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_family 
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			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor 
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			http://thepoliticalcoffeehouse.com/2011/12/01/us-military-opium-afghanistan/ 
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			http://www.minormusings.com/Drugs/Mask.html