We all know that the government is a bit dishonest. The CIA is run by the government so, some of the stuff they do is a bit dis-trustful but what if I told you they may produce and sell drugs to fund their operations and to persecute minorities.

What is the theory?

To start of this theory we should look back at 1961 to 1972 when the CIA was involved in a secret war in Laos. They were accused of trafficking opium. The CIA made its own internal enquiries on members in Laos. The investigation noted that the sale of opium was actually legal in Laos until 1971. The conclusion of the operation was that small amounts of opium were smuggled by an airline they had contracted.

Next place we should look into the this theory would be Mena Arkansas. In the 1980’s several local, state and federal investigations took place relating to information that Mena-Intermountain Municipal airport was being used as a CIA drop of point for their large scale cocaine trafficking operation. An investigation by the CIA’s inspector general stated that they had no involvement or knowledge of any illegal occurrences that had happened in Mena.

In October 2013, two former federal agents and a ex-CIA contractor reported to an American TV network that the CIA was responsible for a kidnapping and murdering a DEA agent called Enrique Camarena due to him threatening to expose the CIA drug operations in Mexico. According to the report the CIA was collaborating with drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine and marijuana into the U.S. The CIA claimed these allegations as false and declared them as “ridiculous”.

In the late 1970’s to early 1980’s, central America, Socialist rebels kicked a US-backed Somoza regime from Nicaragua. The CIA created a paramilitary force called Contras to execute a terrorist rebellion. The US congress outlawed funding for this so the CIA needed to find a different source of funding. This created Contra drug smugglers who, with the aid of the CIA, would smuggle drugs in to the US on flights. The drug in question was cocaine which was very low-level at the time.



The official story

When a lot these theories were presented, the CIA would create their own in-house investigations which would generally turn up nothing.

In 1996 newspaper allegations made the agency launch a wide-scale investigation which, you guessed it turned up nothing. It basically cleared the CIA of knowing anything about Contra’s drug trafficking operations.

Conclusion

The CIA has been accused of many things. To be honest I don’t believe that there was any large-scale drug trafficking operations going on in the CIA. Well at least high up in the chain, but it does make you think if you train up a bunch of criminals and give them money to operate what would they do.

I mean not all agents are criminals but a lot do have backgrounds in different crime. It is highly possible that a few may turn back to their old ways and get involved in the wrong side of the law leading to small-scale drug operations.