arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Afghanistan. CIA opium TIMELINE, 1939 on. GIA; Gangsters Inc, Agency. Worldwide.
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/message.shtml?1x38490 

GIA = Gangster Intelligence Agency. Please distribute this.

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Reagan and 1982 Opium production in Afghanistan.
http://www.feedmag.com/drugs/reagan.html 

1982.
Opium production in Afghanistan increases from 250 to 800 tons during the time that the CIA is shipping weapons and "other aid" to guerrilla forces. By 1986, the State Department admits that Afghanistan is "probably the world's largest producer of opium for export" and "the poppy source for a majority of the Southwest Asian heroin found in the United States." U.S. officials do nothing to curb production.

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OSS, ONI, and CIA. Opium ROOTS:

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1939-45. OSS, ONI. Italian, Chinese, Golden Triangle gangsters. Opium.
http://www.feedmag.com/drugs/f_roosevelt.html 

1939 - 1945.
In an effort to protect East Coast ports and get intelligence on Sicily and on the burgeoning Italian Communist Party, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) cultivate relations with the leaders of the Italian Mafia. They recruit heavily from the New York and Chicago underworlds, whose members help the agencies keep in touch with Sicilian Mafia leaders exiled by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Imprisoned in New York, Charles "Lucky" Luciano earns a pardon for his wartime service and is deported to Italy, where he builds his heroin empire, and then develops connections in Lebanon and Turkey, which supply morphine base to labs in Sicily.

The OSS and ONI also work closely with Chinese gangsters who control vast supplies of opium, morphine, and heroin, helping to establish the third pillar of the post-World War II heroin trade in the Golden Triangle, the border region of Thailand, Burma, Laos, and China's Yunnan Province.

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1947, 49. CIA. Sicilian, Corsican, French, Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Thai, Golden Triangle gangsters. Opium.
http://www.feedmag.com/drugs/truman.html 

1947.
In its first year, the CIA continues the U.S. intelligence community's anticommunist initiatives. The CIA helps the Mafia seize power in Sicily and sends money to heroin-smuggling Corsican mobsters to assist in their battle with Communist unions for control of Marseille's docks. By 1951, Luciano and the Corsicans have pooled their resources, giving rise to the notorious "French Connection" that would dominate the world heroin trade until the early 1970s. The CIA also recruits members of organized crime gangs in Japan to help ensure that "the country stays in the non-communist world." Soon after, the Japanese Yakuza emerges as a major source of methamphetamine in Hawaii.

1949.
The Chinese Communist revolution causes collapse of drug empire allied with U.S. intelligence community -- a new one quickly replaces it under the command of Nationalist (KMT) General Li Mi, who flees Yunnan into eastern Burma. Supporting anticommunist resistance in China, the CIA provides arms, ammunition and other supplies to the KMT. "After being repelled from China with heavy losses, the KMT settles down with local population and organizes and expands the opium trade from Burma and Northern Thailand." By 1972, the KMT controls eighty percent of the Golden Triangle's opium trade.

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1972. CIA tries to quash book, "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia."
http://www.feedmag.com/drugs/nixon.html 

1972.
Yale University doctoral student Alfred McCoy publishes his groundbreaking study, "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia," revealing the details of how Cold War politics and U.S. covert operations fueled a heroin boom in the Golden Triangle. "The CIA attempts to quash the book."

1973.
CIA informant and Thai national Puttapron Khramkhruan is arrested in connection with the seizure of 59 pounds of opium in Chicago. He claims that the CIA had full knowledge of his actions. The U.S. Justice Department reports that the CIA "quashed the case" because it may "prove embarrassing because of Mr. Khramkhruans's involvement with CIA activities in Thailand, Burma, and elsewhere."

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1978. CIA-supported Mujahedeen expands opium grow in Afghanistan.
http://www.feedmag.com/drugs/carter.html 

1978.
A coup in Afghanistan (backed by the Soviet Union) sets the stage for explosive growth in Southwest Asian heroin trade. The new Marxist regime begins a strict anti-narcotics campaign to suppress poppy production, triggering a revolt by semi-autonomous tribal groups that traditionally raise opium for export. CIA-supported rebel Mujahedeen expands production to finance their insurgency.

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*Death Squads, Drug War. LINKS worldwide. Revised. Millions killed over decades. Huge LINKS list. Lists in alphabetical and chronological order. Other death squads, too. Such as the US-run Phoenix Program during the Vietnam war. Many other US-run or US-aided death squads worldwide. Corruption at all levels of politics, police, society, government, etc.. 
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/squads.htm and  
http://drugwar.8m.com/squads.htm  

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U.S. Incarceration Rates Chart. Timeline. Drug War Incarceration Nation. 
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/charts2.htm  and 
http://drugwar.8m.com/charts2.htm       [TopLink]