Interesting thread on the CIA/crack story. I'm not sure that "mostly B.S., with a grain of truth" is the right conclusion since it concedes that CIA was in fact involved with cocaine smuggling & allied with a major crack producer. https://t.co/vQrYoRZIMx
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And this point is worth pondering: the OSS (precursor to the CIA) and CIA have been involved in drug smuggling for at least 5 decades (in Europe, Asia & Latin America). That seems kind of bad! https://twitter.com/MarkARKleiman/status/1133367121688371200 …
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They did similar in Afghanistan and Vietnam/Laos for opium see Alfred McCoy politics of heroin
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The argument is CIA involvement is a) incidental and b) not enough to be remotely responsible for an epidemic.
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They didn't cause the epidemic but certainly fuelled it, particularly on West Coast.
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Capone wasn’t even responsible for much of the total flow of illegal hooch
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Drugs are a good source of money for funding proxy armies
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