The #CIA and Drugs, Inc.: a Covert History » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/07/the-cia-and-drugs-inc-a-covert-history
The CIA’s involvement in the Far East drug trade began with its predecessor organization, the Office of Strategic Services, which supplied Iranian opium to Burmese guerrillas fighting the Japanese. This is no secret: General William Peers, commander of #OSS Detachment 101 in Burma, confessed in his autobiography: “If opium could be useful in achieving victory, the pattern was clear. We would use opium.”
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