that the presence of the decides some very negative cold, already gone. gone responded by calling from turkey city in moscow. so the new one and more specifically what seems to be an attempt to investigate the weight is what, what went on during the month. so today is understand these concerns with regards to the syrian democratic syria, but at the same time that it is against any that undermines the territorial integrity of the serious. so

despite opposition, activities or so now we see that this latest meeting, the latest visit by the united nations are getting to know about to this piece, thoughts between a trip to the modus operandi studio? is this where we head next? join manila chung. i'm guess for a deeper dive into what is perhaps the term of the you're a multi point, a world and what a good meaning for us. all the

the hello, i'm manila chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. tens of millions of people globally abused listed in drugs of some sort, according to the what the united states is just 5 percent of the world's population, but accounts for 20 percent of the drug overdose desk. why do these numbers reveal more to the story or just how the drug trade has only increased despite more technology and intelligence to crack down on the sources will talk to a man who spent nearly 30 years on the front lines fighting. that's losing battle on the international drug war. all right, let's get into the m. o. the,

the most recent available you when drug report from 2019 pre pandemic gives only a sad reflection of just how bad the global addiction problem has grown. since it's publishing using data up to 2017, the un office on drugs and crime known as the u. n. o d. c. it reveals that an estimate of 271000000 people worldwide use drugs within the past year. now that count is 30 percent higher than the number of from 2009. it also shows that the global opioid users hit $53000000.00, which is up from 56 percent from previous years. now opiate depths accounted for 2 out of 3 drug related deaths, which were roughly 600000 in 2017. in the us open wide depths have topped 800000 in 2022 alone. now opium derived from poppies are used to make

morphine that's used in hospitals for pain management, but also used to make heroine and fentanyl of the use of opiate and drugs are on the rise in africa, asia, europe, and north america. with africa, expected to see the biggest spike of 40 percent by the year 2030, some 93 percent of the world opium comes from afghanistan. the global illegal drug trade averages nearly $700000000000.00 us dollars annually. the u. s. b, e, a drug and foresman administration is task with busting the drug lords around the world, and to stop this global academic. but many accounts from former d. e. a agents say, america's top spy agency, the c i a is responsible for the proliferation of most drugs around the world. listen to this 1998 house intelligence hearing with then c. i a inspector general

fred hits is here today to review the report of the c. i. a inspector general regarding allegations made in the 1996 newspaper series. that the c i was involved in the trafficking of crack cocaine, california during the 1980s. i immediately initiated an inquiry and to the allegations that stand from a 3 part series called dark alliance. that was published in the san jose mercury news in august of 96. that series discussed the drug trafficking activities of several individuals who had been implicated in cocaine trafficking in california. as you know, the series also suggested that the nicaraguan congress describe the sea ice army benefit from the drug trafficking activities of ricky ross, the video bland on norwin mondays and others that these activities were responsible for the emergence of crack cocaine in south central los angeles. and elsewhere in

america to now one of those accusing the ca, of complicity in this deadly trade is a 25 year veteran of the d. e. a. mr. michael levine is a retired d e, a undercover agent, an author of a number of books including fight back how to take your neighborhood schools and families back from the drug dealers. mr. levine, thank you so much for joining us. now. you are the most decorated d, e, a agent in us history boss and arrest in the thousands. but at about 25 years at the da da, you grew disenchanted with law enforcement. and you've been cited by press over the years that your frustration came from encounters with the c i a that the d e. a had conflicting goals from the c i a. can you explain that to us central intelligence upfront, pre med goals. first goal in this world is anti communism. it always has been,

it is, it continues now of it. and to gain that goal to attain that goal, they will, to use the drugs, they will use drug trafficking. they will actually engage in drug trafficking themselves. and they've been caught doing that, we've caught them doing that and unfortunately paid no penalty. they were caused by us in night as early as a 1991 and the case of a venezuela national guard general g e n g u i l l e n. go forward to miami airport. 1991 with a $727.00 paid for by c. i. a loaded with a ton of the copay as your wrist lead to the opening, the wide opening of a drug traffic. i'm talking about them actually drug trafficking, the un would be a c, i a agent. and he admitted that he was a c, i a agent,

or actually he claimed it during his arrest. and those of you who really want to research this, i urge you to look at case g, u i l l e n a. then as well in national guard case, you will find a lot of materials the case. finally, result is in the head of the d. e. a judge bond facing the cameras on 60 minutes and saying there's no other way to put c a r drug smugglers. what, what more proof would you need? essential intelligence began during the cold chain was the legit copay was supporting the anti communist factions throughout south america actually throughout the world by promoting drug trafficking using drug trafficking, using drug trafficking fires to pay for their operations literally pay for their

operations. this is an amazing amount of proof out there, but the interesting fact that we bring to to this day is that they are now still promoting drug trafficking in the form of the afghanistan drug banner. now we know it's a, i can't, i don't think you can find you have a trouble finding plenty of comment, lose articles where in yes, gather, stand, drugs of being drafted throughout the world. yet, try and find one case of one asked in drug was big project huge. now you want because they are protected by the central intelligence. not a central intelligence agency. what's the central intelligence policy to, to protect them. now they're the anti, uh, a,

a radical faction in the, in afghanistan, there it, we have nothing else. so, you have d, e, a allegedly fighting drugs, everyone in afghanistan. a again, is one of the prime sources of what on the face of the years right now, and no arrest, no prosecution, no highly wanted extra additions from afghanistan of drug transportation. you have to ask yourself, wait, how is that? how can that be? now people who hear the names of the 3 letter agencies, you know, the f, b i, c a, d, e, a ice and so forth. and they assume law enforcement as law enforcement. and that they're common goal is, you know, busting the bad guys. but you've asserted that the c a is different in that they've often initiated a lot of crimes engaging in and even orchestrating crime rings like drug trafficking. can you tell us more about that?

let me see. first of all, very clear. central intelligence is not a police agency. they can, they have no power in the united states in the any police action whatsoever, or actually any way they are not policeman this. their own supposedly spies is supposedly, well, i don't know. do you have to ask them, what do you guys do? because what we see in tom clancy movies is to be s. u. we know that the guy who's sitting in these meetings that you see in central intelligence and the next thing you see is the same guy. now under cover, deep cover that never, never happens. central intelligence or spies, nothing more, nothing less. yeah, they're also paid by us by our taxpayers to go out and screw up the final which a slip far an operations in any way,

whether the job that they're doing is good or bad in my opinion and the end of the last d, e, a people we call them the criminal inept agency. they're very in depth at what they do. but when they show up, because there was 5 agency, everything is hidden behind national security. you have no right to to look for. if you go now and try to find out, for example, what, whatever happened to mark make fall in the c, i a officer who was running the operation running the drug smuggling operation out of his way law. you will be able to find this thing to classify. so what does that prove when pj is there. busy the law in this country is not a police agency. they are spying agency, and they're above the law. now it's also said that the us played an outsized role

in the early days of the opium trade, which is used in heroin, in fentanyl. in the old days, it was afghanistan, the golden triangle, which was louse vermont, now known as myanmar and thailand. we know that open whites are a problem all around the world. now, what can you tell us about the us role in the opium trade and what was the purpose of proliferating such drugs around the world? the early days it was the, the is of the vietnam war. during those years, i happened to be on an under cover deep cover assignment in thailand in cambodia. during that time, i was later assigned to follow something called the shan united army. now these, these will be an army in that that particular zone of tribesmen who move through the jungles carrying rough opium. from the deduction,

place to where we started to heroin and bank up around bank this, this organization was funded, run projected by central intelligence. then you have all you have to do is google arrow, america, c i a drug smuggling. and you, what you learn is that every america was a proxy, a line run by central intelligence for nothing more than traffic in drugs. first of these asia. now what, what was that for, for support in the war in vietnam? that was, it kind of was said stop paying for that. what? see, i wanted to keep going. they funded it through traffic in drugs into the veins and brains and americans and people all over the world. it was their choice, and there's no one that can argue against that choice. you don't want to do the position of know what i'm talking to is going to be able to do

a damn thing about this. and i know that. so i guess i'm doing, i'm doing this will pass that really because it's almost no, it's not funny. i'm going to say it's almost your point. it's not a joke. so i think that that agency really has gotten us in terrible trouble and god knows we're real estate going because there's nothing to stop to run this country. all right, more with michael levine when we return coming up next. if you thought americas pentagon budget was huge, the illegal drug trade is a very close 2nd. next find out if drug trafficking is actually a tool of the ca, we'll discuss it when we return. so type the m o will be right back the the

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the, the welcome back to the m. o. i, manila chan retired under cover d e. a agent mike levine is staying with us. now mike, today the former golden triangle is a major producer of math. the mexican drug. cartels are a major producer of other types, synthetic drugs like fentanyl. while it's true that you know, the u. s. has plenty of homegrown labs for synthetics. a lot of drugs make it into the u. s. from abroad. the u. s. is only 5 percent of the world's population, but it has over 20 percent of the world attics. the last several years, the u. s. is hovering at about a $100000.00 overdosed debts per year. why are americans seemingly more addicted than other populations around the world? it's a complicated answer, but it's, it's one i can answer. i wrote a book called fight back,

is an insight back. i researched the nations and societies and coaches that effectively one of the drug was huge, huge population of aeronautics, for instance, in china before mount se so took over it. most people who really have no knowledge and say, oh, well yeah, he told everybody what everybody was dealing at drugs. that wasn't the case at all . what he did was he recognized that this wasn't a problem of supply of drugs. as we tell our children, this is a supply of peer pressure. they believe what it was that got you into using when at the a well 40000000000 aeronautics when small states on took over on that account. i'm not a political guy in any way. so in that spouting communist, some of the audience may say he is just a fact where he may be

a policy of the government for each neighborhood, for each community to be responsible for the addicts in that community. each community was responsible for keeping them, getting them off drugs and keeping them off the truck. there was very few executions, but what they did was they recognized that by telling people that you are a victim of drugs that the, the availability of drugs makes you a drug addict, which is what we tell our children. you are assuring that they will go into they will it's not my fault. so. yeah, they don't feel like companies put it on the street. i had to take because it's on the street. what's the worst thing you can do every read all the research. i did said the very worst thing you can do is tell children that they can't resist. the

availability of drugs is the reason they take drugs. that's just not so. you know, the reason they take drugs is pressure. the reason they take drugs is julia. the reason they say drugs is something you'd have to find for from each case, but has nothing to do with the availability of drugs. and the worst thing you can do is say the availability of drugs makes you an addict. now my boat fight back was, was ruled up was a judge by the swedish quantity institute as the only anti drug book ever to come out of america. it made any sense at all. so those of you with people with drug problems, your family, i urge you to get to book this for fight back, but by my glue in my researches in there. and i think you should at least find it very interesting. but what you stop listening to is that the over like companies of

somehow made your children victims of opiates, by making them available. and again, that's the way produce over 90 percent of the world. opium is just words that they have to produce to fulfill the bureaucratic jobs. means that the, the operation burns a furnace in olivia was exactly that you, when you went in and burned out the, the, the coco, we just burned it out. well, it was a success in the living and people site, sorry, we had it back out. that's a, that's a fact. it was such a sham as we had. i've heard about it and so i think we, we want we won. why didn't we keep doing it? now because the fact the fact of the matter is to many people make a living, living for crowns raping people, make a living off of this. so what do you want to do? what's the point?

some political purpose of making them saw, you know, it is, this is tough question. but the questions about reality is what it is. fact is we can do that stuff. when we do uh, back in 1971, i think it was 72. we put the turkish opium farm is out of this when we got them in to the president, nick president nixon, it's time a deal with them that stopped them from glowing the the poppy leaves and the conception of they were the prime source arrow. and that immediately there was a panic and he with immediately what happens is when started coming in from other countries, mexico became of prime a prime supplier heroines brought down who, it was so few fenwick's dignity seeking. you figure that i just stopped the ocean, you know, he said it's bizarre. yeah. we spend billions going just that sticking fingers and

bikes just so we could say, look what we're doing. look, you know, this is what we're spending billions of dollars. of course, a lot of it going to us bureaucrats and salaries. but i'll give you all the words you want to know. and that's what tim and these are actually doing that this. the job is the credit. you know, i was, i was a country attache. i had to make statements. no, i don't know tim is d e a and i believe he's a, a country at a shade or official signed to the country. so i know the job. i know. i know what it is to be able to credit your. yeah, michael levine, retired d e a, an author check out his books at michael levine. books dot com. thank you so much, sir, to say thank you. it's really been my pleasure. that is good. i do it for this week's episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy on your host manila trans. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you

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