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Didn't the CIA use cocaine trafficking to fund some black type ops?

Yes, and if the number of bankers recently convicted of widely exposed and very large money laundering operations (Wachovia, HSBC, etc) is any indication, they continue to do so. See also:

# Air America

# The Iran Contra affair.

# Mena Arkansas (CIA investigated itself and found no wrongdoing)

# BCCI (CIA money laundering)

# The Politics of Heroin - McCoy (book with lots of source citations)

# Crop spraying in Central America[1], (the policy efforts have directly[2] and indirectly[3] increases cocaine production, yet they continue.)

# Etc. etc. ad nauseam

[1] With bullet-resistant crop-dusters! (look for "Air Tractor") http://www.economist.com/node/17647585

[2] Search for "Roundup Ready Cocaine"

[3] By killing subsistence farmers' food crops, incentivizing the cultivation of higher profit crops like coca.



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