CIA
Created Afghan Heroin Trade – by Dean Henderson
Source: Veterans
Today
“From
1982-92, roughly the period of US involvement in Afghanistan, heroin addiction
in the US rose by 50%. All the while Nancy Reagan was telling us all to
‘Just Say No’.”
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has good reasons for trying to shut down US investigations into corruption in his government. The Afghan aristocracy has always run the nation’s heroin trade. But it was the CIA that created it.
(What follows is excerpted from Chapter 8: Project
Frankenstein: Afghanistan: Big
Oil & Their Bankers…)
In 1933 King Mohammed
Zaher Shah took the throne in Afghanistan, ruling the country in feudalistic
fashion until he was deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud in 1973. A
handful of families including the Karzais and the Kalilzidads (Zalmay
Kalilzidad is US Ambassador to Afghanistan) owned nearly all arable land, while
most Afghans languished amidst some of the planet’s worst poverty. Finally,
they’d had enough.In April 1978 King Daoud was killed in a revolution led by Nor Mohammed Taraki, who became President. Taraki embarked upon an ambitious land reform program to help poor Afghan sharecroppers who were traditionally forced to work the land owned by the king and his cronies. He built schools for women, who were banned from education under the monarchy. He opened Afghan universities to the poor and introduced free health care.
When counter-revolutionary bandits began to burn down universities and girl’s schools, many Afghan’s saw the hand of the CIA. By April 1979, a full seven months before the much-ballyhooed Soviet “invasion” of Afghanistan, US officials were meeting with corrupt Afghan warlords and oligarchs bent on overthrowing Taraki.
As the campaign of sabotage intensified, Kabul revolutionaries called on Soviet leader Leonid Brezynev to send troops to repel the bandits. Brezynev refused. The situation deteriorated.
Pro-Taraki militants, convinced of a CIA destabilization plot, assassinated CIA Kabul Chief of Station Spike Dubbs. On July 3, 1979 President Jimmy Carter signed the first national security directive authorizing secret aid to Afghan warlords. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said later that he had convinced Carter that in his, “…opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.” Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller, was baiting the Soviets to invade Afghanistan.
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