CIA’s Anti-Drug Message for Kids; it joins other federal agencies in projecting a clean and sober message. However, it doesn’t come clean on its complicity in fostering international narcotrafficking.

I searched in vain on the CIA’s Web site for any mea culpa regarding the agency’s
support for counterinsurgency campaigns waged by various drug-smuggling “freedom
fighters.”

There was no mention of massive amounts of still unaccounted-for U.S. aid to
Pakistani military officers and Afghan mujahadeen rebel leaders, which helped
grease a major arms-for-heroin pipeline in Southwest Asia during the 1980s. Much of
the dirty cash was laundered through institutions such as the scandal-ridden Bank of
Credit and Commerce International, which functioned, not coincidentally, as a conduit
for CIA operations in the region.

At the same time in Central America, Lt. Col. Oliver North and high-level CIA
personnel aided and abetted big-time cocaine smugglers who ferried weapons to the
Nicaraguan contras fighting the Sandinista government.