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globally abuse of listed and 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 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 us to have reflection of just how bad the global addiction problem hasn't grown since it's publishing using data up to 2017,

the un office on drugs and crime known as the u n o b c. and 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. oh boy, that's have topped 80002022 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's 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 passed with busting the drug lords around the world. and to stop this global epidemic. but many accounts from former d. e. a agency, americas tops my agency, the c i a is responsible. busy 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. but 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 stemmed 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 c i a's army benefit from the drug trafficking activities of ricky ross, the video bland, don't know when when the seas 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 under cover 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 u. s. history boss and arrest in the thousands. but at about 25 years at the d a. d . e. a. 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 premier goal? 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 will cost by us in night as early as a 1991. in the case of a been as well and national guard general g e n g u i l l e n. cool, cool into miami airport. 1991. with a 727 paid for by c i a loaded with a ton of the copay. the rest led to the opening, the wide opening of c. i a drug traffic, i'm talking about them. actually drug trafficking un would be a c. i a agent and he admitted that he was a c, a g. well 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 in case. finally, result is in the head of d. e. a judge bond facing the camera is on 60 minutes and saying, there's no other way to put c a r drug smugglers. what, what more proof would you need? a central 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 funds 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 ask in drug was big prosecute. no, you want, because they are protected by the central intelligence. not the central intelligence agents, but the central intelligence policy to, to protect them. now they are the anti, uh, uh, a radical faction in the, in afghanistan and there, it, we have nothing else. so you have d, e, a allegedly fighting drugs, everyone in afghanistan a and the again is one of the prime sources of what on the face of the years right

now. and no arrests, no prosecutions, no highly wanted extra additions from afghanistan of drug transportation. you have to ask yourself why, how is that? how can that be? now people who hear the names of 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 their 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, 1st 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 spy 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 a b 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 spice, nothing more, nothing less. yeah, they're also paid by us by of taxpayers to go out and screw up the final which screw up for an operations in any way with a the job that they're doing is good or bad. in my opinion and opinion 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 they're a spy 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. ready is running the operation running the drug smuggling operation out of his way law. you will be able to find the thing to classify. so what does that prove when pj is due above the law in this country is not a police agency. they are spite agency and they are 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, b golden triangle, which was louse, vermont, now known as myanmar 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 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. so these, these would be an army in that that particular zone of tribesmen who moved through the jungles carrying rough opium from the production place to where we started to heroin and bank costs around bank to this, this organization was funded, run protected by central intelligence, then you have all you have to do is google ever 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 a said stop paying for that. what? see, i wanted to keep going. they funded it through the traffic in drugs into the range and brains of americans and people. ringback all over the world, it was their choice, and there is no one that can argue against that choice. no one is in 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 for posterity because it's almost no, it's not funny. i'm going to say it's almost a joke, but it's not a joke. i, i,

i think that that agency really has gotten us in total trouble and i 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 russian states never is as tight as i'm one of the most sense community. best of all sun set up the same assistance

must be the one else holes. question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin mission, the state on the russians, putting a split, the r t spoke neck, keeping our video agency roughly all the band on youtube. the question, did you say even closer to the way somebody tells you who they are? you shouldn't believe them. the same applies to nato's current. secretary, generally on stilton or you know, deal with the washington post office. bird review. natal isn't practicable. it

drives in the brain conflict and then the alliance has anything. the defense uh 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 deaths 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 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 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 say tom took over on not a. com. i'm not a 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 the 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. 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. 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 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 michael in my research is 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 of 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, an international drug symposium in paris 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 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 showing i think, the 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. if 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 left this

out. if you read my book, the big white light, it's all about that. we were under cover's 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, the central intelligence try to destroy the case. they wanted to get the lydia galer government. what was a left his government in bolivia, which was the chief supply of ro cocaine and well, then what did he get out of power because she was a left. yes. well, she was helping d a. bring down the cartels. so they, for many days to the agents a at the moment, the bloodiest 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 who gave with government that was destroyed. they were out who took over that government under the ca is protection. what they call the cocaine government. we saw say, gomez. e then took it over and it was in minnesota. ok. it was a c 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 opi 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? opm since afghanistan does 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 1st in bolivia was exactly that. you, when you, when it burned out the, the, the coco, we just burned it out. well it was a success in the bolivian people side. sorry. we had it back out. that's a, that's a fact it was such a sham this the 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 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 stop? you know, it is, this is tough question, but the questions about reality is what it is. fact is we can't 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 they was a prime source of arrow and that immediately was kind of continue with immediately what happens is when started coming in from other countries, mexico became a prime. a 5 supplier of heroines brought bound who, it was so few,

it's kind of like they need seeking. you figure that i just stopped the ocean. you know, it's a, 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 your address in 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, 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 bureau 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. i'm modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy. i'm your host manila chan. thank you for tuning in. we'll see you again next week to figure out the m. o. the . i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except we're so shorter is that conflict with the 1st law show alignment of the patient. we should be very careful about visual intelligence. the point obviously

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