Wednesday, October 2, 2019
CIAââ¬â¢s 50 Years of Corrupt Drug Trafficking :: Argumentative Persuasive Papers
CIAââ¬â¢s 50 Years of Corrupt Drug Trafficking The CIAââ¬â¢s 50-year history of smuggling drugs into America is generating hatred for the United States throughout the world. Like Pontius Pilate, CIA washes their hands of the human tragedies and the corruption of government offices. They do this by remaining and by refusing to recognize the evidence, supporting corruption. For the past 50 years, the CIA has abused its power by deliberately drugging and corrupting America; and therefore should be prosecuted. According to the constitution, the people for the people originally created the government to be a group of elect ââ¬Å"organizersâ⬠(not controllers) employed. One can say the CIA is a mutated part of the US government. The CIA was created when a Wall Street lawyer and banker wrote The National Security Act of 1947. Clark Clifford was the man who brought the CIA backed drug bank BCCI into the United States. CIA heroin trafficking moved in the 1960ââ¬â¢s and 1970ââ¬â¢s from the Turkey-Marseilles connection to the Asian connection. For decades until the 1950s, Asian government supported the opium trade, because money was flowing in as long as the opium was flowing out. By the early 1960s, the mountain areas of Southeast Asia produced most of the world's opium. In the early 1950ââ¬â¢s in Southeast Asia, the CIA organized the Nationalist Chinese army to start a war against Communist China. This Chinese army became the opium distributors of the ââ¬Å"Golden Triangleâ⬠(parts of Burma, Thailand and Laos). The ââ¬Å"Golden Triangleâ⬠has the most abundance of opium and heroin in the world. In order to smuggle drugs, the CIAââ¬â¢s main airline, Air America, flew drugs all over Southeast Asia. (Robbins 154) From the early 1950ââ¬â¢s to early 1970ââ¬â¢s during U.S. military involvement in Laos, Indochina, opium and heroin were flown by ââ¬Å"Air Americaâ⬠into many countries, including Vietnam. As a result of CIAââ¬â¢s drug smuggling, Southeast Asia became the source of 70% of the worldââ¬â¢s opium and heroin. South Vietnam was completely corrupted by a heroin trade that came from Laos, thanks to the CIA. The Hmong culture in Laos provided 30,000 men for the CIA's secret Laotian army. But in the process, opium production took over Hmong culture. To support the Hmong economy, the CIA's ââ¬Å"Air Americaâ⬠transported raw opium out of the Laotian hills to the labs. By mid-1971, Army medical officers estimated that fifteen percent of American GIs were addicted (Stich 142).
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