so that we can easily yeah, we know that your intention out of that range most of those. but up to now besides, i mean the bottom missing there is no, i mean we hold that with the new the new government isn't meant if the very vice one, there's some change in your every way and i'll give you that it's the, it we hope to meet you, we hope that position for me, it will be in the position to cooling for the vein, for the show confidence. with that, see that the senior and that is i, me must go to the negotiation for to use as examine. but the must preach to assist you with the control over what fits and everything else. but i mean, it's a time to do that. and the city of china is the hundreds of people have taken to the streets in a show of solidarity with palestinians facilities through a similar experience of the being and somebody from the v.

not only a way of low, but also in their home. in the 75 years, the brothers pinion people on the renewable stop up at 1250 the get these before right now as i speak to you. all but other than system didn't fall as buying a die. they are being removed from their own. exactly what happened to often the days of the policy. communications mother do it, the human rights organization advocates full palestine. eli, an allied law pay says the un solidarity with palestinians with a step in the right direction. the magic missions illuminating these events is, is very significant. thank. he started with the, it's a move to correct 0. see me the prospect open as easy to pursue them. to for

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hello i, manila chan. you're tuned into modus operandi. tens of millions of people globally abuse 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 worldwide. 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 this, losing battle on the international drug for 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 that's accounted for 2 out of 3 drug related deaths, which were roughly 600000 in 2017 in the us. oh boy, that's 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. 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 force mid administration is task with mustang, the drug lords around the world. and to stop this global academic. but many accounts from former d. e. a agent say americas tops my agency, the c i a is responsible. busy for the proliferation of most drugs around the world, listen to this 1998 houses. describe the c i a is army dropping. a get a this way law, you will be able to find this thing so classified. so what does that prove? what pools is do above the law in this country? there's not a police agency, you know, spite 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 me, and mar and thailand. we know that open ways 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 was the, the, is of the vietnam war. during those years i happened to be on an under cover cover assignment in thailand and cambodia. during that time, i was later assigned to follow something called the shan united army. so these, these would be an army in that that particular zone of tribesmen who move through the jungles carrying rough opium from the

production place to where we're starting to heroin and bank costs around bank this, this organization was funded, run projected by central intelligence. then you have all you have to do is google error america, c i a drug smuggling. and you, what you learn is that every america was a proxy l line run by the 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 war. see, i wanted to keep going. they funded it through traffic in drugs into the veins and brains of americans and people. ringback 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 a funny i'm going to say it's almost a joke, but it's not a joke. i i think that that agency really has gotten us in total trouble and god knows we're real estate going because there's nothing to stop to run this country to write 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 m o will be right back 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 and 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 us from abroad. the us 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 overdose 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 in a fight back. i researched the nations in 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 was an 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 the comp. i'm the political guy in any way. so in that stowing communist,

some of the audience may say he is just a fact where he made it a the 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 drugs. there were 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. they all 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,

that the availability of drugs is the reason they take drugs. that's just not so, you know, the reason they take drugs is push. the reason they take drugs is curious. the reason they say drugs is something you'd have to find for on 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 in your family, i urge you to get to book this for fight back, but by mike live 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

that somehow made your children victims opiates, by making them available. and again, that's the worst thing you can tell children. is it a bug in the system that these overseas drug operations boomerang home to the us? or is that a feature of the system for americans here at home was invited to speak at a list of national drug symposium and powers by the french drum. and one of the other speakers there was a michelle just as asking ease, was it an advisor to the international monetary fund? he was a professor of economics at university of what we became friends. when do we become friends? when he, on the stage of audience for $5600.00 experts and agents from all over the well, he said if america stop buying drugs because it could conceivably

cost cause and international banking price. that's how the drug economy, as well as way into world economy. so your guess is as good as mine, what is the, the, the implication of that? some of you guys listening who may be economic expert way because i'm not an economic expert. but those words with chilling, i think they are very accurate. i think they're still accurate to the state. and what role do elicit and drugs play in the world of geo politics? and would you go as far as to say that drug trafficking is actually a tool of the c i a to achieve certain geo political goals? that's what i've been talking about to the list. that's our, that's exactly what it is. you political goal during vietnam was killed economies. yeah. how you do that? support the drug trafficking opposition to that cut to

south america during iran contra. so let's go with the c. i a is get the, let's this out. if you read my book, the big white life, it's all about that. we were under cover, deep cover. we had penetrated the biggest drug carto on earth at that time. and this was secret. send it secret testimony before the senate and the 1st people to come out. but yes, those central intelligence try to destroy the case. they want to get the lydia gaylor government. what was a left this government in bolivia, which was then the chief supply of local canaan. well, then what did he get out of power because she was a less yes. well, she was helping d. e a. bring down the cartels. so they, for mentees to the agents a, the use revolution in bolivia, history, cocoa, they call it the cocoa revolution. and they,

they show they, they had to re learned all the, all of the lady again with government there was destroyed. they were out who took over that government under the sea ice protection. was they called the co king of we saw say, gomez, e then took it over and it was in minnesota. okay. it was a see i yes. now go back to afghanistan, and in the 1980s, russia spent a decade there at war. the us only recently wrapped up it's 20 year campaign. they're both countries point 2 asked in opium as the cause for rise and white addiction. specifically right now on the rise in russia, turkey and iran, according to a 2009 statement from tim jones, the da's ashtray at the us embassy in moscow at the time. mister jones said this quote to unless we work together and attack this problem as a joint effort,

we're not going to be able to make the difference that we need to make. now that the us is in effect, locked in a new proxy war with russia, some even say a cold war. what does that mean for the world of drug trafficking? opium, since afghanistan does produce over 90 percent of the world. opium is just words that they have to produce to fulfill the bureaucratic jot means that the, the operation burns, a furnace in bolivia was exactly that. you, when you, when it burned out the, the coco lease 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 this year. we had, i wrote about it and so i think we, we won, 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 port, crown scraping people, make a living off of this. so what do you want to do? what's the point? some political purpose of making them stop, 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 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 there was a prime source arrow. and that immediately was kind of gives us immediately what happens is when someone coming in from other countries, mexico became

a prime of 5 supplier heroines brought down who it was so few fennel, interesting speaking, you figuring that i could just stop the ocean, you know, it's just it's bizarre. yeah, we spend billions going just that sticking thing isn't bikes just so we could say, look what we're doing. look, you know, this is what we're spending billions of dollars across a lot of it. going to us your pressing salaries. but i'll give you all the words you want to know. and that's what tim and these are, like i said, doing that this the job. there's no 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 shape or a social sciences the country. so i know the job. i know. i know what it is to bureaucratic job. 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. i'm modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chance. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the m. o. the operation here dynamic began shortly after world war 2. i lost it almost 3 decades . it was an a major effort to try and split the ukraine or from the soviet union, us intelligence together with hitler's execution. i was trained hundreds of sabotage to be deployed in the soviet union. this focused on i've used of my little

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