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“We funded the terror training camps that were set up in Pakistan because of our funding of ISI. Pakistan set up a whole bunch of heroin processing labs because of the opium fields in Afghanistan. So we go into Afghanistan and we coup that g…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 1:27:46
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▶ 1:04:10
The aftermath of losing Vietnam. So when the control of it, I mean, they still buy drugs and opium from the Golden Triangle. But, you know, they moved that to Afghanistan and then we went through the whole initial back in the day Afghanista…
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We also know that the closing of the Vietnam in residence portion of the drug trafficking operation and basically the transferring of it to large segments of it, I should say, it didn't exclusively get transferred to South America happened …
▶ 2:05:28
The whole idea was managed chaos. And they were going to hold on to their managed chaos to control the opium for as long as they could. They knew going in, it wouldn't last forever. While they were doing that, they were setting up alternati…
▶ 42:47
With their leader, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek. Oh, and don't forget, we'll rename an island Formosa to Taiwan and say, ah, you can work there. We even set them up shop. We gave them a Navy. We gave them an Air Force. And we were off ru…
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Hawk and the U.S. State Department argued that America should employ whatever means necessary. Arms here, opium there, bribery, propaganda, anything that it took. Rusk advice was thus implemented through strategies of propaganda and covert …
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They were communist at all. They definitely were talking to the Soviet Union, though, which, again, you're not allowed to do. Drugs were shipped out of out in Pakistani army trucks that brought in covert USA to Afghan guerrillas. Afghanista…
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The U.S. was drawn into Latin America in the same way that it had been drawn into the Golden Crescent as its attention turned to revolutionary movements and governments. The Cuban Revolution in 1959 was described by JFK as a spread of the C…
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Laotian production had been attributed to a drought, a related factor was clearly the increase in cultivation in the so-called Golden Crescent, which had moved basically to Afghanistan. And they increased theirs from 400 to 1,200. They basi…
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But the CIA is the one that overthrew the government and left when they were moving their operations out of the their primary operations. They didn't ever technically all leave the Golden Triangle. But when they were refocusing them over to…
▶ 1:27:46
We funded the terror training camps that were set up in Pakistan because of our funding of ISI. Pakistan set up a whole bunch of heroin processing labs because of the opium fields in Afghanistan. So we go into Afghanistan and we coup that g…
▶ 1:23:55
But you can score a lot of back points with him and basically say that there's a difference between what you can totally conclusively prove and what you can basically know. And if you're willing to accept that, there's certain things that y…