This tracks as CIA was indeed running the drug trade in Southeast Asia in 1970s out of perceived military necessity to fund proxies in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam. This memo suggests they knew getting caught doing it in the Continental US would be a scandal https://t.co/xh3YRPezAZMike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber):In 1967, USAID paid the head of the CIA’s mercenary army in Laos the financial capital to acquire 2 airplanes from 2 CIA-propriety airlines, which the CIA-backed army used to traffic drugs from the Golden Tri ...