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Who Is The Real Enemy?
Wars and Drug Trafficking Have Funded the Hidden Enemy for Generations
JOE LANGE
MAY 01, 2024
Photo by Colin Davis via Unsplash
This feature is a follow-up to ‘Profiting from War.’
Why was the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) so important to the CIA, the Bush family and Prince Alwaleed?
It was a massive money spigot.
They stole billions of dollars from depositors in over 70 countries and used it to fund terrorist groups and start wars in order to steal taxpayers’ money in the trillions.
BCCI was used to fund both sides of the Iran/Iraq war, Iran-Contra and drug cartels. It was also used to fund the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, which would morph into Al Qaeda. George W. Bush would later declare Al Qaeda, public enemy number one. Everything is connected.
Let’s step back and look at the big picture.
The CIA/shadow government, set up by George H.W. Bush, was controlling the drug trade worldwide and starting wars to both protect that drug trafficking and steal money from tax payers who were funding all the wars. It was a constant money spigot of funding for the cabal, and it was purposely centered around the Middle East.
The Middle East was being set up as a “war zone” to promote constant fear and expenditure of money along with lives in order to create a “never-ending war on terror.”
BCCI was at the center of that war against terrorism. It started out as a bank in Pakistan. That wasn’t a coincidence. Pakistan had some of the most lax banking laws and their intelligence service, known as ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) agency, was directly connected to the CIA. The BCCI Ponzi scheme lasted as long as it did because it was connected to the CIA and the intelligence agencies of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Why was Pakistan so important?
For three reasons:
The lack of strict banking standards in Pakistan allowed the CIA to fund many operations in the Middle East through BCCI.
Pakistan was also at the center of the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. That wasn’t a coincidence. I will go deeper into that in my next article.
One of the most important CIA operations happening in Pakistan was funding and arming the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. They were fighting against the Soviet Union, who had invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979.
But why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
What was the real reason?
Do you remember the narrative that was pushed on the American people regarding the invasion? It was a media narrative that I don’t remember anybody questioning. The basic narrative was this:
‘We were involved in a “Cold War” and the Soviet Union was an evil communist empire that was always looking to expand communism around the world. Afghanistan was just their latest conquest.’
What is wrong with that narrative?
It wasn’t the Soviet Union that was expanding worldwide; it was the CIA/shadow government. The CIA expansion into the Middle East was a direct threat to the Soviet Union, and that’s what triggered the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
As I have been laying out in this long series, the CIA has been overthrowing governments and installing dictators in order to protect their worldwide drug trafficking, and they were using the Cold War with the Soviet Union as the reasoning for their actions.
The entire “Cold War” narrative was the excuse that the CIA/shadow government used to fight proxy wars all over the world and to steal taxpayers’ money.
The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan turned out to be a pivotal point in world history. It marked the end of the “Cold War” narrative and the start of the “never-ending war on terror.” The cabal knew the Cold War was coming to an end, so they needed a “new” never-ending war.
That new war was against terrorism.
But let’s go back to the media narrative that was pushed on the American people.
Was the Soviet Union(Russia) just trying to expand territory by invading Afghanistan and propping up another communist government?
Or was it something more?
Did you know that Trump commented specifically on this subject and gave a completely different reason for the invasion? He was then bashed in the media for his comments and painted as a Russian sympathizer.
Our history has been a complete lie, and Trump has often tried to reveal that to us. The Russian invasion of Afghanistan narrative was another lie.
According to the Washington Post:
Trump’s bizarre history lesson on the Soviet Union, Russia and Afghanistan
President Trump said a lot of strange, untrue things after Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting. But the most bizarre snippet might have been his “history” lesson on the Soviet Union.
Trump, who has assured us he is the foremost expert on many topics for which he has no formal education or training, gave his own version of why the USSR collapsed. And to be clear, it is his own version.
Who is telling the truth?
Trump or the media?
The media narrative just parrots what the CIA claims is the truth. They have lied to us for years about everything. They claim that Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about, or is flat out lying.
Who has a better record of telling the truth over the last seven years? Trump or the media? There’s a reason Trump paints the media as the enemy of the people.
Q told us the media was controlled, and that Trump was purposely exposing them.
So what did Trump say that got the media to attack him?
This is classic Trump.
More from The Washington Post:
Here’s what he said:
“Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan. Russia. … The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there. The problem is, it was a tough fight. And literally they went bankrupt; they went into being called Russia again, as opposed to the Soviet Union. You know, a lot of these places you’re reading about now are no longer part of Russia, because of Afghanistan.”
Trump is the master of the narrative, and he purposely invites the media attacks on what he says in order to draw attention to a specific subject. He words his statements very carefully, knowing that the media will try their best to prove him wrong. They take the bait every single time.
Trump mentioned “Russia” over and over in this statement for a reason. It’s a siren call to the CIA controlled media, who are desperate to pin Russian collusion on Trump. The corrupt political insurgency had spent valuable time and effort on their framing of Trump on Russian collusion during the 2016 election, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller had exonerated Trump of all charges. The democrats had just impeached Trump for the first time on abuse of power and obstructing Congress, and they were wasting valuable ammo in this narrative war. Trump wanted them to keep expending ammunition on Russian collusion because he had nothing to fear, and knew the truth would prevail.
But look at the specific points that Trump makes about Russia.
I think most people realize now that the Soviet Union broke apart because their economy collapsed. The war in Afghanistan drained valuable resources, and put them into massive debt. Trump uses the term bankrupt because wars are what puts countries into debt and ultimately forces bankruptcy on them. The Soviet Union split up not long after they ended their decade old war in Afghanistan. Russia then became one of the nations that was formed when the Soviet Union imploded. Trump is saying that the current Russia exists today because of what happened in Afghanistan. That is true.
More from The Washington Post:
The overlap between the fall of the Soviet Union and its foray into Afghanistan is obvious. The USSR invaded in 1979 and left a decade later, in 1989. The superpower dissolved shortly thereafter in 1991.
But correlation is not causation. And Trump — who was using that anecdote to argue that the United States should pull out of Afghanistan and Syria — is really straining for causation here.
The correlation that Trump is focusing on is that a WAR in Afghanistan bankrupted the Soviet Union and was now bankrupting the United States.
At the time, Trump was moving towards ending our own twenty-year war in Afghanistan that had put the United States into massive debt and was driving us into bankruptcy. Trump’s mission was to end all wars.
The CIA-controlled media was obviously against ending the ongoing war in Afghanistan because it was a constant money spigot.
From day one, Trump has focused on turning off all the enemy’s money spigots. Money flow disruption weakens the enemy and their grip on power.
Money equals power. If you cut off the money, the enemy has no power.
But did you catch the most inflammatory part of Trump’s quote?
“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there.”
Trump knew this statement would catch the ire of the CIA-controlled media. This is how he set the “hook” to make them focus on this story.
He said, “They were right to be there.”
Is Trump right?
That goes completely against everything we’ve been told for years, and it sure seems like Trump is sympathetic to Russia, doesn’t it?
Why would Trump say such a thing?
And who were the “terrorists” Trump was referring to?
More from The Washington Post:
“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia.”
This is simply not true. The Soviet Union ventured into Afghanistan as part of its effort to prop up communism abroad, not because terrorists were striking the Soviet homeland.
The media says that what Trump said “is simply not true.”
Really?
Trump has declassified everything and knows what’s been hidden from the American people.
Let me ask the question again. Who were the “terrorists” that Trump was referring to?
According to The Guardian:
Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths by Jonathan Steele - review
The Russians invaded in December 1979 not as part of a plan for the world victory of communism, as our propaganda had it, but to protect the security of their southern frontier against Islamic unrest and American intrigue.
Senior Soviet generals and officials had warned against getting mixed up in an Afghan civil war. They pointed to the unhappy precedent of Vietnam. Their leaders went ahead nevertheless, as much as anything because they could not think of a better alternative. Change the Afghan leader, train up his army and his police, and then – they hoped – the Soviet troops would be able to leave in a matter of months.
It did not happen. The Russians were soon sucked into just the quagmire that the skeptics had feared. Before long they were looking for a way out.
The books author, Jonathan Steele, based his view on declassified Soviet Union documents. The Soviet Union leadership was reluctant to get involved in Afghanistan, but felt they had no choice.
Why?
“To protect the security of their southern frontier against Islamic unrest and American intrigue.”
“Islamic unrest?”
That sure sounds like terrorism.
“American intrigue?”
That’s just a fancy term for the CIA.
The CIA had been sponsoring terrorism throughout the Middle East, since George H.W. Bush cut a deal to sell weapons to Iran. They had funded both sides of the Iran-Iraq war, and now they were using BCCI to fund the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. All of this unrest/terrorism in the Middle East was being directed by the CIA/shadow government through Pakistan.
But, do you know the real backstory on why the Soviet Union felt that it had no choice but to invade Afghanistan?
A communist government had taken control of Afghanistan in 1978. So why would the Soviet Union invade the country a year later? Didn’t they already control the country? Wasn’t the Afghan government already a puppet of the Soviet Union?
Do you want to know what really triggered the invasion?
There was a coup that happened in Afghanistan before the Soviet Union invaded. Guess who was behind the coup?
Here’s the backdrop:
According to The Diplomat:
The People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), the communist party that ruled the country from 1978 until 1992, remains largely forgotten in Afghanistan’s long story of bloodshed.
The PDPA had two main factions, the Khalq (masses) and the Parcham (banner). Hafizullah Amin, who emerged as the leader in the radical Khalq faction, brutally eliminated his party rivals, forcibly disappeared thousands of Afghans, confounded the Soviet Union’s leadership, and forced a series of foreign interventions that drastically sealed Afghanistan’s fate for the next 40 years.
There was a communist government in Afghanistan BEFORE the Soviet Union invaded the country. But there was a radical faction within that government that began killing off all of its rivals. This violent and radical group was led by Hafizullah Amin.
Who is Hafizullah Amin?
More from TheDiplomat:
Amin was born in 1929 outside of Kabul. An ethnic Pashtun, he came from an intellectual background, having studied education at Columbia University in New York City, where he also adopted his Marxist ideology.
The hard-lined and disciplined Amin was soon dissatisfied with the PDPA’s rule after the coup and outmaneuvered his predecessor and fellow Khalq faction member, Nur Mohammad Taraki, by staffing the PDPA’s Politburo with Amin loyalists. Leonid Brezhnev tried to prevent Taraki’s murder, but Amin had him killed in October 1979, a move which deeply rattled the Soviets.
Hafizullah Amin was second in command of the communist government in Afghanistan, and he was the one who controlled most of the military. He was killing and torturing tens of thousands of Afghans before he led a military coup and killed Taraki in order to take control of the country.
More from The Diplomat:
Afghans of the older generation still remember the days of Amin. Just like today’s conspiracy narratives, including one that the United States created the so-called Islamic State group, similar tropes existed in 1979.
Fahim, 67, a mining engineer at that time, thinks Amin was on the payroll of the CIA.
“Whatever he did benefited the Americans, which proved he was an American chess piece. His actions caused a split inside the PDPA and weakened the party. As a second-in-chief of the party led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, he did everything arbitrarily and in a dictatorial manner,” says Fahim. He adds that Amin’s loyalists may have his picture on their wall and some may call him a “patriot” but he was a “bloodthirsty ruler” whose savageries were later repeated by the notorious Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
It wasn’t a conspiracy narrative that the United States created ISIS or that Amin was a CIA asset. More on ISIS in a coming article.
Remember that name—Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. I’ll come back to him.
Many people in Afghanistan, who lived through Amin’s bloody regime, believed he was taking orders and on the payroll of the CIA who had staged the coup.
More from The Diplomat:
Abdul Hadi, 63, was a university student at the time of Amin’s 100 days of rule in Afghanistan.
“Today’s miseries all trace back to Hafizullah Amin’s actions,” he says, adding that Amin was a U.S.-trained man and an American pawn that resorted to forced disappearance and burying people alive, indiscriminately from any ethnic groups of the society, in order to incite the people against the Soviet-backed communist regime.
The Soviet Union felt it had no choice but to invade Afghanistan to avoid increased terrorism on their southern border and to prevent possible American missiles on that same southern border. The CIA forced their hand, and the result was millions of lives lost along with the acceleration of the CIA’s sponsorship and promotion of terrorism in the Middle East … All now centered around Afghanistan.
None other than the New York Times hinted at the same thing without naming the CIA.
According to the New York Times:
“We have been receiving information about Amin’s behind-the-scenes activities, which might mean his political reorientation to the West,” Yuri V. Andropov, the K.G.B. chief, told the Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev in a handwritten memo in December 1979. “He keeps his contacts with the American chargé d’affaires secret from us.”
The Andropov memo was made public in 1995 when Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the longtime ambassador to the United States, went to the Russian archives and transcribed documents for a project by the Norwegian Nobel Institute. At a meeting on Dec. 8, 1979 — also transcribed by Mr. Dobrynin — Mr. Andropov andDmitri F. Ustinov, the defense minister, cited the dangers of American missiles being deployed in Afghanistan.
“The picture Andropov is painting in early December is that if Amin did a flip, it would totally change the geopolitical balance in South Asia,” Mr. Blanton said. “It would be as if Mexico became a base for Soviet short-range missiles. How would we feel?”
The Soviets knew that Amin was meeting secretly with the CIA and that their southern border was now threatened. The Soviet Union sent special forces into Kabul to kill Amin and control the city as they invaded Afghanistan.
What happened in Afghanistan back in 1979 wasn’t much different from the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. In both instances, Russia was being threatened by a CIA-controlled shadow government that wasn’t looking for peace, but was instead trying to destabilize their country and threaten them with missiles.
Both Russian invasions were for defensive purposes, not conquest. The media continue to lie about both wars.
Trump knows a lot more about the Afghanistan “history” than these few declassified documents prove, and I believe the “terrorists” he was referring to are the CIA, which is the biggest terrorist organization in the world.
Now let’s go back to that name that was mentioned previously.
Who is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar?
According to Wikipedia:
Hekmatyar joined the Muslim Youth organization as a student in the early 1970s, where he was known for his Islamic radicalism rejected by much of the organization. He spent time in Pakistan before returning to Afghanistan when the Soviet–Afghan War began in 1979, at which time the CIA began funding his rapidly growing Hezb-e Islami mujahideen organization through the Pakistani ISI. He received more CIA funding than any other mujahideen leader during the Soviet-Afghan War.
In the late 1980s, Hekmatyar and his organization used the funds and weapons provided to them by the CIA to start trafficking opium, and later moved into manufacturing heroin. He established himself and his group amongst the leading heroin suppliers in the Middle East. Given the CIA's connection, this became a subject of diplomatic embarrassment for the US foreign service.
The CIA handpicked Hekmatyar to control their heroin operation in Afghanistan and used the cover of “freedom fighter” and the “Cold War” in order to fund and arm him.
His nickname was the “Butcher of Kabul,” and he was a protege of the CIA. The CIA is responsible for so many butchers of innocent people around the world during the shadow government expansion under George H.W. Bush.
According to The National Post:
Now, a new chapter in the pantomime has opened with the High Peace Council’s rehabilitation of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Butcher of Kabul, a sociopath who almost single-handedly turned the Afghan capital to rubble during the early 1990s, when as many as 50,000 people were slaughtered and the city was reduced from a metropolis of two million to perhaps 500,000 shell-shocked, ragged and half-mad survivors. A peace deal between Hekmatyar and the government of Ashraf Ghani is to be concluded this week.
This CIA sociopath wasn’t a freedom fighter, as the media once proclaimed. He slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent Afghans and was listed as a terrorist at the U.N. Council, which was a designation the CIA had removed as part of this bogus peace deal.
More from The National Post:
Hekmatyar first came to public attention in the 1980s after murdering a fellow student at Kabul University. He went on to a lucrative career in drug trafficking and became prominent in Afghanistan’s underworld, which allowed him to position his Hezb-e-Islami outfit to leverage more money and guns from the Americans and the Saudis than any of the 15 jihadist groups fighting the Soviets.
During the post-Soviet anarchy and the rush for the spoils of war, Hekmatyar spent most of his time in 1992-96 raining rockets and artillery shells on the people of Kabul, leaving the city a smoking tomb.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was at the center of the early days of heroin drug trafficking for the CIA in Afghanistan. That’s why he was getting the most funding and weapons from the CIA.
This is very important to understand.
The CIA/shadow government literally created a private army to “protect” their heroin operation in Afghanistan. They were sold to the American people as “freedom fighters.”
When the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan, a bloody civil war erupted that killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans. It was all about control of the heroin trade. Drug trafficking was at the heart of the BCCI bank in Pakistan.
According to Fair.org:
The transfer of money allegedly destined for the Afghan rebels to various CIA-backed counterrevolutionary groups is just one of the scandals lurking behind the BCCI scandal. This bank was also a major channel for drug money laundered by corrupt Pakistani military officers, who administered the CIA’s arms pipeline to the Afghan rebels while supplying much of the heroin that inundated the U.S. and Europe during the 1980s, a scandel Time (7/29/91) briefly alluded to.
Despite such revelations, U.S. news media continue to promote the Reagan/Bush administrations’ so-called war on drugs.
All throughout the Reagan and Bush administrations, the American people were told that there was a “war on drugs” happening as untold millions of dollars were being spent to supposedly stem the flow of “CIA drugs” into the United States. It was just another scam—a “war” to steal tax payers money.
The CIA heroin operation in Afghanistan was disguised as just another battle in the Cold War and a way to support freedom fighters. It was a purposeful lie to the American people, and taxpayers’ money was flowing to the very groups causing the heroin epidemic in America. We were funding our enemies.
Afghanistan was a focus of the shadow government from the beginning.
According to WhoWhatWhy.org:
Creating an International Islamist Army: Casey, BCCI, and the Creation of al-Qaeda
The other most significant case in which the CIA became a front for sanctioned violence was CIA Director William Casey’s use of the CIA in the 1980s to promote his own plans for Afghanistan.
Casey’s Afghan initiatives aroused the concern of the CIA’s professional operatives and analysts, including his deputy directors, Bobby Ray Inman and John McMahon. But this did not deter Casey from making high-level decisions about the Afghan campaign outside regular channels when meeting in secret with foreigners.
One man Casey dealt with in this fashion was Agha Hasan Abedi, a close adviser to General Zia of Pakistan and, more important, the head of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI):
William Casey was head of the CIA in the Reagan administration, when George H.W. Bush was establishing the shadow government that would control the entire executive branch. As part of the shadow government, Casey worked outside of normal government channels and met secretly with foreign counterparts, including the close financial adviser to the president of Pakistan and the founder of the CIA established BCCI bank.
Why keep it so secret?
As I shared in my last article, the Bush family was completely connected to the BCCI scandal and were personally profiting from it. It was a massive money spigot.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
Unquestionably, BCCI offered Casey an opportunity to conduct off-the-books operations, such as the Iran-Contra arms deal, in which BCCI was intimately involved. But the largest of these operations by far was the support to the Afghan mujahideen resistance against the Soviet invaders, where once again BCCI played a major role.
Casey repeatedly held similar meetings with General Zia in Pakistan — arranged by Abedi and with Saudi intelligence chiefs Kamal Adham and Prince Turki al-Faisal (both BCCI shareholders).
There were three main intelligence agencies running the BCCI scam: The CIA, and the intelligence agencies from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
As a result of such conclaves, Prince Turki distributed more than $1 billion in cash to Afghan guerrillas, which was matched by another billion from the CIA. “When the Saudis provided the funding, the administration was able to bypass Congress.”
To access the CIA money was relatively easy.
Bags of dollar bills were flown into Pakistan and handed over to Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdur Rahman, the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] director. Rahman banked the cash in ISI accounts held by the National Bank of Pakistan, the Pakistan-controlled Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and the Bank of Oman (one-third owned by the BCCI).
Pakistan is so essential to the CIA/shadow government operations in the Middle East.
In my next article, I will dive deeper into Pakistan as I continue to set the table for the coming 9/11 article.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
Casey’s involvement with BCCI was not just a backdoor operation with a bank; it was a multi-billion-dollar backdoor operation with a criminal bank accused, even by its own insiders, of:
Global involvement with drug shipments, smuggled gold, stolen military secrets, assassinations, bribery, extortion, covert intelligence operations, and weapons deals.
BCCI was set up for one purpose, and it wasn’t to fight communism.
What was the real purpose?
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
There were huge and lasting historical consequences from Casey’s apparently unilateral decision to work with BCCI. One was that BCCI’s drug clients in Pakistan and Afghanistan, notably Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, emerged in the 1980s, with protection from General Zia, as dominant figures in an expanded Afghan heroin drug traffic that continues to afflict the world.
(According to McCoy, BCCI “played a critical role in facilitating the movement of Pakistani heroin money that reached $4 billion by 1989, more than the country’s legal exports.”
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was funded by the CIA through Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and his protected heroin operation was bringing in billions for Bush and the shadow government. Pakistan was being used by Bush to “protect” this very lucrative drug trade.
Bush and the CIA had literally cornered the market on the worldwide heroin trade.
How big was it?
They controlled the Golden Triangle in Asia and now the “Golden Crescent” in Afghanistan.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
It is worth contemplating for a moment the legacy of CIA-supported drug proxies in just two areas — the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent.
In 2003, according to the United Nations, these two areas accounted for 91 percent of the area devoted to illicit opium production and 95 percent of the estimated product in metric tons.
Add in Colombia and Mexico, two other countries where the CIA has worked with drug traffickers, and the four areas accounted for 96.6 percent of the growing area and 97.8 percent of the estimated product.
The CIA controlled almost 98% of the worldwide heroin trafficking because of their Secret War in Laos during the Vietnam War, and now the wars in Afghanistan.
How many millions of innocent lives have been lost due to drug addiction promoted by the CIA? I know people personally whose lives have been ruined by heroin, which is why I feel the need to expose it all. These people are evil.
When the CIA got involved, the drug trafficking massively increased because money was more important than human lives.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
When the CIA airline CAT began its covert flights to Burma in the 1950s, the area produced about 80 tons of opium a year. In ten years’ time, production had perhaps quadrupled, and at one point during the Vietnam War, the output from the Golden Triangle reached 1,200 tons a year. By 1971, there were also at least seven heroin labs in the region, one of which, close to the CIA base at Ban Houei Sai in Laos, produced an estimated 3.6 tons of heroin a year.
That’s how much the CIA increased heroin production in Laos, but what about in Afghanistan?
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
Afghan opium production has been even more responsive to US operations in the area. It soared from 200 metric tons in 1980, the first full year of US support for the drug-trafficking mujahideen Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, to 1,980 metric tons in 1991, when both the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to terminate their aid.
After 1979, Afghan opium and heroin entered the world market significantly for the first time, and rose from roughly 0 to 60 percent of US consumption by 1980. In Pakistan there were hardly any drug addicts in 1979; the number had risen to over 800,000 by 1992.
The CIA controlled media criticized Trump for saying that the Soviet Union dissolved because it went bankrupt fighting a war in Afghanistan. They said “correlation is not causation.”
The media says that a war that drained valuable resources and severely damaged the Soviet Union’s economy is not the reason that the nation collapsed and split up.
The United States is around $35 trillion in debt. The interest payments are close to a trillion dollars now, and we are spending a trillion dollars every hundred days. How long until the United States goes bankrupt? How did our nation get strapped with all that debt?
The CIA/shadow government has kept the nation in perpetual war since World War II, which has brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. We have only lasted this long because we are the world’s reserve currency and can print as much money as we need.
How about this correlation?
Did heroin trafficking massively increase because of the wars in Laos and Afghanistan?
Who was waging those wars in “secret?”
Why is the CIA connected to all the major drug trafficking groups worldwide?
Who is the real enemy?
Trump focused on Afghanistan for a reason.
As I said earlier, Afghanistan represented the cabal’s transition from a “never-ending Cold War” against the Soviet Union, into a “never-ending war on terror” that was centered in the Middle East.
War for profit.
The Soviet Union collapsed after they lost the war in Afghanistan.
We should have celebrated a great victory in the Cold War, and Afghanistan should have been better off because they had won their freedom from communism. But unfortunately, they never gained their freedom from the CIA/shadow government. A bloody civil war began in Afghanistan, and it would be a defining moment in American history.
Afghanistan was in chaos and was now going to be the focal point of the worldwide growth of terrorism. The CIA/shadow government was going to create a worldwide terror network in Afghanistan that would both protect their heroin trade and strike fear in the hearts of the American people in order to create support for a never-ending war on terror.
Pakistan was the key. It was a purposeful safe haven for radical terrorists, and the CIA was behind it all.
One person called it out because he actually cared about the Afghan people who were being sacrificed.
According to Spiegel International:
DER SPIEGEL: What does this contest of world powers have to do with the murderous struggle of the Taliban?
Karzai: When things started to go wrong in Afghanistan – around 2005, 2006, when the extremist terrorist attacks started – we talked to the U.S. about the different causes of the violence. We knew that these attacks were being organized by intelligence in Pakistan and carried out by the Taliban. The U.S. confirmed this independently, telling us: Yes, the violence is coming from Pakistan, and yes, the Taliban's sanctuaries are there. But instead of investigating the root cause of the violence and going after it, Washington started to fund Pakistan's military.
The Taliban was being funded, trained and protected in Pakistan by the CIA. Karzai confronted the U.S government on the fact that Pakistan was acting as a sanctuary.
What did our shadow government do? They increased funding to the Pakistan military. This was the same military that was helping to facilitate the CIA drug trafficking operation.
But why?
More from Spiegel International:
DER SPIEGEL: Officially, the U.S. compensated Pakistan for their cooperation in the war on terror and paid for the use of ports and roads for their supplies to Afghanistan. What was wrong with that?
Karzai: The U.S. was supporting both sides of the conflict at the same time. It was dropping bombs on Afghan villages in order to fight the Taliban, while at the same time, funding the very country accused of organizing Taliban terror campaigns. Former U.S. President Donald Trump once announced that America had paid $35 billion to Pakistan over these past 19 years. This contradictory policy cost thousands of Afghan lives – troops and civilians alike. Tell me, how was Afghanistan supposed to come to peace?
Trump wasn’t afraid to call out the real enemy, and knew that the American people were being forced to FUND OUR ENEMIES.
The shadow government was paying Pakistan for the use of ports and roads to supply their private army of freedom fighters who were protecting their heroin trade. Karzai called out the hypocrisy of fighting a “war on terror” in Afghanistan while funding the country that was promoting that same terrorism. But, like most people in the spotlight, he wouldn’t mention the CIA drug trafficking that was centered around the whole war.
More from Spiegel International:
DER SPIEGEL: When it comes down to it, who will decide on war or peace, Pakistan's intelligence service or the Taliban?
Karzai: Ultimately, the Taliban are also Afghans, and I hope they will stand up to foreign influences where necessary, such as in Pakistan. My appeal to Afghans, including the Taliban, is that we come together and finally take our fate into our own hands against all foreign powers.
Who was the real enemy?
Was it the Taliban, or was it Pakistan?
All of the terrorism coming from Afghanistan was being fueled by Pakistan, which was being controlled by the CIA/shadow government.
Pakistan is the key that opens several doors.
In my next article, I will dive deep into Pakistan and the connections to the CIA and Saudi Arabia that helped lead to the creation of Al Qaeda.
I will also reveal an even bigger threat worldwide that Trump took head-on, which has already changed the course of history.
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Wars and Drug Trafficking Have Funded the Hidden Enemy for Generations
JOE LANGE
MAY 01, 2024
Photo by Colin Davis via Unsplash
This feature is a follow-up to ‘Profiting from War.’
Why was the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) so important to the CIA, the Bush family and Prince Alwaleed?
It was a massive money spigot.
They stole billions of dollars from depositors in over 70 countries and used it to fund terrorist groups and start wars in order to steal taxpayers’ money in the trillions.
BCCI was used to fund both sides of the Iran/Iraq war, Iran-Contra and drug cartels. It was also used to fund the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, which would morph into Al Qaeda. George W. Bush would later declare Al Qaeda, public enemy number one. Everything is connected.
Let’s step back and look at the big picture.
The CIA/shadow government, set up by George H.W. Bush, was controlling the drug trade worldwide and starting wars to both protect that drug trafficking and steal money from tax payers who were funding all the wars. It was a constant money spigot of funding for the cabal, and it was purposely centered around the Middle East.
The Middle East was being set up as a “war zone” to promote constant fear and expenditure of money along with lives in order to create a “never-ending war on terror.”
BCCI was at the center of that war against terrorism. It started out as a bank in Pakistan. That wasn’t a coincidence. Pakistan had some of the most lax banking laws and their intelligence service, known as ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) agency, was directly connected to the CIA. The BCCI Ponzi scheme lasted as long as it did because it was connected to the CIA and the intelligence agencies of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Why was Pakistan so important?
For three reasons:
The lack of strict banking standards in Pakistan allowed the CIA to fund many operations in the Middle East through BCCI.
Pakistan was also at the center of the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. That wasn’t a coincidence. I will go deeper into that in my next article.
One of the most important CIA operations happening in Pakistan was funding and arming the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. They were fighting against the Soviet Union, who had invaded Afghanistan at the end of 1979.
But why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
What was the real reason?
Do you remember the narrative that was pushed on the American people regarding the invasion? It was a media narrative that I don’t remember anybody questioning. The basic narrative was this:
‘We were involved in a “Cold War” and the Soviet Union was an evil communist empire that was always looking to expand communism around the world. Afghanistan was just their latest conquest.’
What is wrong with that narrative?
It wasn’t the Soviet Union that was expanding worldwide; it was the CIA/shadow government. The CIA expansion into the Middle East was a direct threat to the Soviet Union, and that’s what triggered the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
As I have been laying out in this long series, the CIA has been overthrowing governments and installing dictators in order to protect their worldwide drug trafficking, and they were using the Cold War with the Soviet Union as the reasoning for their actions.
The entire “Cold War” narrative was the excuse that the CIA/shadow government used to fight proxy wars all over the world and to steal taxpayers’ money.
The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan turned out to be a pivotal point in world history. It marked the end of the “Cold War” narrative and the start of the “never-ending war on terror.” The cabal knew the Cold War was coming to an end, so they needed a “new” never-ending war.
That new war was against terrorism.
But let’s go back to the media narrative that was pushed on the American people.
Was the Soviet Union(Russia) just trying to expand territory by invading Afghanistan and propping up another communist government?
Or was it something more?
Did you know that Trump commented specifically on this subject and gave a completely different reason for the invasion? He was then bashed in the media for his comments and painted as a Russian sympathizer.
Our history has been a complete lie, and Trump has often tried to reveal that to us. The Russian invasion of Afghanistan narrative was another lie.
According to the Washington Post:
Trump’s bizarre history lesson on the Soviet Union, Russia and Afghanistan
President Trump said a lot of strange, untrue things after Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting. But the most bizarre snippet might have been his “history” lesson on the Soviet Union.
Trump, who has assured us he is the foremost expert on many topics for which he has no formal education or training, gave his own version of why the USSR collapsed. And to be clear, it is his own version.
Who is telling the truth?
Trump or the media?
The media narrative just parrots what the CIA claims is the truth. They have lied to us for years about everything. They claim that Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about, or is flat out lying.
Who has a better record of telling the truth over the last seven years? Trump or the media? There’s a reason Trump paints the media as the enemy of the people.
Q told us the media was controlled, and that Trump was purposely exposing them.
So what did Trump say that got the media to attack him?
This is classic Trump.
More from The Washington Post:
Here’s what he said:
“Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan. Russia. … The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there. The problem is, it was a tough fight. And literally they went bankrupt; they went into being called Russia again, as opposed to the Soviet Union. You know, a lot of these places you’re reading about now are no longer part of Russia, because of Afghanistan.”
Trump is the master of the narrative, and he purposely invites the media attacks on what he says in order to draw attention to a specific subject. He words his statements very carefully, knowing that the media will try their best to prove him wrong. They take the bait every single time.
Trump mentioned “Russia” over and over in this statement for a reason. It’s a siren call to the CIA controlled media, who are desperate to pin Russian collusion on Trump. The corrupt political insurgency had spent valuable time and effort on their framing of Trump on Russian collusion during the 2016 election, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller had exonerated Trump of all charges. The democrats had just impeached Trump for the first time on abuse of power and obstructing Congress, and they were wasting valuable ammo in this narrative war. Trump wanted them to keep expending ammunition on Russian collusion because he had nothing to fear, and knew the truth would prevail.
But look at the specific points that Trump makes about Russia.
I think most people realize now that the Soviet Union broke apart because their economy collapsed. The war in Afghanistan drained valuable resources, and put them into massive debt. Trump uses the term bankrupt because wars are what puts countries into debt and ultimately forces bankruptcy on them. The Soviet Union split up not long after they ended their decade old war in Afghanistan. Russia then became one of the nations that was formed when the Soviet Union imploded. Trump is saying that the current Russia exists today because of what happened in Afghanistan. That is true.
More from The Washington Post:
The overlap between the fall of the Soviet Union and its foray into Afghanistan is obvious. The USSR invaded in 1979 and left a decade later, in 1989. The superpower dissolved shortly thereafter in 1991.
But correlation is not causation. And Trump — who was using that anecdote to argue that the United States should pull out of Afghanistan and Syria — is really straining for causation here.
The correlation that Trump is focusing on is that a WAR in Afghanistan bankrupted the Soviet Union and was now bankrupting the United States.
At the time, Trump was moving towards ending our own twenty-year war in Afghanistan that had put the United States into massive debt and was driving us into bankruptcy. Trump’s mission was to end all wars.
The CIA-controlled media was obviously against ending the ongoing war in Afghanistan because it was a constant money spigot.
From day one, Trump has focused on turning off all the enemy’s money spigots. Money flow disruption weakens the enemy and their grip on power.
Money equals power. If you cut off the money, the enemy has no power.
But did you catch the most inflammatory part of Trump’s quote?
“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there.”
Trump knew this statement would catch the ire of the CIA-controlled media. This is how he set the “hook” to make them focus on this story.
He said, “They were right to be there.”
Is Trump right?
That goes completely against everything we’ve been told for years, and it sure seems like Trump is sympathetic to Russia, doesn’t it?
Why would Trump say such a thing?
And who were the “terrorists” Trump was referring to?
More from The Washington Post:
“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia.”
This is simply not true. The Soviet Union ventured into Afghanistan as part of its effort to prop up communism abroad, not because terrorists were striking the Soviet homeland.
The media says that what Trump said “is simply not true.”
Really?
Trump has declassified everything and knows what’s been hidden from the American people.
Let me ask the question again. Who were the “terrorists” that Trump was referring to?
According to The Guardian:
Ghosts of Afghanistan: Hard Truths and Foreign Myths by Jonathan Steele - review
The Russians invaded in December 1979 not as part of a plan for the world victory of communism, as our propaganda had it, but to protect the security of their southern frontier against Islamic unrest and American intrigue.
Senior Soviet generals and officials had warned against getting mixed up in an Afghan civil war. They pointed to the unhappy precedent of Vietnam. Their leaders went ahead nevertheless, as much as anything because they could not think of a better alternative. Change the Afghan leader, train up his army and his police, and then – they hoped – the Soviet troops would be able to leave in a matter of months.
It did not happen. The Russians were soon sucked into just the quagmire that the skeptics had feared. Before long they were looking for a way out.
The books author, Jonathan Steele, based his view on declassified Soviet Union documents. The Soviet Union leadership was reluctant to get involved in Afghanistan, but felt they had no choice.
Why?
“To protect the security of their southern frontier against Islamic unrest and American intrigue.”
“Islamic unrest?”
That sure sounds like terrorism.
“American intrigue?”
That’s just a fancy term for the CIA.
The CIA had been sponsoring terrorism throughout the Middle East, since George H.W. Bush cut a deal to sell weapons to Iran. They had funded both sides of the Iran-Iraq war, and now they were using BCCI to fund the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. All of this unrest/terrorism in the Middle East was being directed by the CIA/shadow government through Pakistan.
But, do you know the real backstory on why the Soviet Union felt that it had no choice but to invade Afghanistan?
A communist government had taken control of Afghanistan in 1978. So why would the Soviet Union invade the country a year later? Didn’t they already control the country? Wasn’t the Afghan government already a puppet of the Soviet Union?
Do you want to know what really triggered the invasion?
There was a coup that happened in Afghanistan before the Soviet Union invaded. Guess who was behind the coup?
Here’s the backdrop:
According to The Diplomat:
The People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), the communist party that ruled the country from 1978 until 1992, remains largely forgotten in Afghanistan’s long story of bloodshed.
The PDPA had two main factions, the Khalq (masses) and the Parcham (banner). Hafizullah Amin, who emerged as the leader in the radical Khalq faction, brutally eliminated his party rivals, forcibly disappeared thousands of Afghans, confounded the Soviet Union’s leadership, and forced a series of foreign interventions that drastically sealed Afghanistan’s fate for the next 40 years.
There was a communist government in Afghanistan BEFORE the Soviet Union invaded the country. But there was a radical faction within that government that began killing off all of its rivals. This violent and radical group was led by Hafizullah Amin.
Who is Hafizullah Amin?
More from TheDiplomat:
Amin was born in 1929 outside of Kabul. An ethnic Pashtun, he came from an intellectual background, having studied education at Columbia University in New York City, where he also adopted his Marxist ideology.
The hard-lined and disciplined Amin was soon dissatisfied with the PDPA’s rule after the coup and outmaneuvered his predecessor and fellow Khalq faction member, Nur Mohammad Taraki, by staffing the PDPA’s Politburo with Amin loyalists. Leonid Brezhnev tried to prevent Taraki’s murder, but Amin had him killed in October 1979, a move which deeply rattled the Soviets.
Hafizullah Amin was second in command of the communist government in Afghanistan, and he was the one who controlled most of the military. He was killing and torturing tens of thousands of Afghans before he led a military coup and killed Taraki in order to take control of the country.
More from The Diplomat:
Afghans of the older generation still remember the days of Amin. Just like today’s conspiracy narratives, including one that the United States created the so-called Islamic State group, similar tropes existed in 1979.
Fahim, 67, a mining engineer at that time, thinks Amin was on the payroll of the CIA.
“Whatever he did benefited the Americans, which proved he was an American chess piece. His actions caused a split inside the PDPA and weakened the party. As a second-in-chief of the party led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, he did everything arbitrarily and in a dictatorial manner,” says Fahim. He adds that Amin’s loyalists may have his picture on their wall and some may call him a “patriot” but he was a “bloodthirsty ruler” whose savageries were later repeated by the notorious Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
It wasn’t a conspiracy narrative that the United States created ISIS or that Amin was a CIA asset. More on ISIS in a coming article.
Remember that name—Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. I’ll come back to him.
Many people in Afghanistan, who lived through Amin’s bloody regime, believed he was taking orders and on the payroll of the CIA who had staged the coup.
More from The Diplomat:
Abdul Hadi, 63, was a university student at the time of Amin’s 100 days of rule in Afghanistan.
“Today’s miseries all trace back to Hafizullah Amin’s actions,” he says, adding that Amin was a U.S.-trained man and an American pawn that resorted to forced disappearance and burying people alive, indiscriminately from any ethnic groups of the society, in order to incite the people against the Soviet-backed communist regime.
The Soviet Union felt it had no choice but to invade Afghanistan to avoid increased terrorism on their southern border and to prevent possible American missiles on that same southern border. The CIA forced their hand, and the result was millions of lives lost along with the acceleration of the CIA’s sponsorship and promotion of terrorism in the Middle East … All now centered around Afghanistan.
None other than the New York Times hinted at the same thing without naming the CIA.
According to the New York Times:
“We have been receiving information about Amin’s behind-the-scenes activities, which might mean his political reorientation to the West,” Yuri V. Andropov, the K.G.B. chief, told the Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev in a handwritten memo in December 1979. “He keeps his contacts with the American chargé d’affaires secret from us.”
The Andropov memo was made public in 1995 when Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the longtime ambassador to the United States, went to the Russian archives and transcribed documents for a project by the Norwegian Nobel Institute. At a meeting on Dec. 8, 1979 — also transcribed by Mr. Dobrynin — Mr. Andropov andDmitri F. Ustinov, the defense minister, cited the dangers of American missiles being deployed in Afghanistan.
“The picture Andropov is painting in early December is that if Amin did a flip, it would totally change the geopolitical balance in South Asia,” Mr. Blanton said. “It would be as if Mexico became a base for Soviet short-range missiles. How would we feel?”
The Soviets knew that Amin was meeting secretly with the CIA and that their southern border was now threatened. The Soviet Union sent special forces into Kabul to kill Amin and control the city as they invaded Afghanistan.
What happened in Afghanistan back in 1979 wasn’t much different from the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. In both instances, Russia was being threatened by a CIA-controlled shadow government that wasn’t looking for peace, but was instead trying to destabilize their country and threaten them with missiles.
Both Russian invasions were for defensive purposes, not conquest. The media continue to lie about both wars.
Trump knows a lot more about the Afghanistan “history” than these few declassified documents prove, and I believe the “terrorists” he was referring to are the CIA, which is the biggest terrorist organization in the world.
Now let’s go back to that name that was mentioned previously.
Who is Gulbuddin Hekmatyar?
According to Wikipedia:
Hekmatyar joined the Muslim Youth organization as a student in the early 1970s, where he was known for his Islamic radicalism rejected by much of the organization. He spent time in Pakistan before returning to Afghanistan when the Soviet–Afghan War began in 1979, at which time the CIA began funding his rapidly growing Hezb-e Islami mujahideen organization through the Pakistani ISI. He received more CIA funding than any other mujahideen leader during the Soviet-Afghan War.
In the late 1980s, Hekmatyar and his organization used the funds and weapons provided to them by the CIA to start trafficking opium, and later moved into manufacturing heroin. He established himself and his group amongst the leading heroin suppliers in the Middle East. Given the CIA's connection, this became a subject of diplomatic embarrassment for the US foreign service.
The CIA handpicked Hekmatyar to control their heroin operation in Afghanistan and used the cover of “freedom fighter” and the “Cold War” in order to fund and arm him.
His nickname was the “Butcher of Kabul,” and he was a protege of the CIA. The CIA is responsible for so many butchers of innocent people around the world during the shadow government expansion under George H.W. Bush.
According to The National Post:
Now, a new chapter in the pantomime has opened with the High Peace Council’s rehabilitation of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Butcher of Kabul, a sociopath who almost single-handedly turned the Afghan capital to rubble during the early 1990s, when as many as 50,000 people were slaughtered and the city was reduced from a metropolis of two million to perhaps 500,000 shell-shocked, ragged and half-mad survivors. A peace deal between Hekmatyar and the government of Ashraf Ghani is to be concluded this week.
This CIA sociopath wasn’t a freedom fighter, as the media once proclaimed. He slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent Afghans and was listed as a terrorist at the U.N. Council, which was a designation the CIA had removed as part of this bogus peace deal.
More from The National Post:
Hekmatyar first came to public attention in the 1980s after murdering a fellow student at Kabul University. He went on to a lucrative career in drug trafficking and became prominent in Afghanistan’s underworld, which allowed him to position his Hezb-e-Islami outfit to leverage more money and guns from the Americans and the Saudis than any of the 15 jihadist groups fighting the Soviets.
During the post-Soviet anarchy and the rush for the spoils of war, Hekmatyar spent most of his time in 1992-96 raining rockets and artillery shells on the people of Kabul, leaving the city a smoking tomb.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was at the center of the early days of heroin drug trafficking for the CIA in Afghanistan. That’s why he was getting the most funding and weapons from the CIA.
This is very important to understand.
The CIA/shadow government literally created a private army to “protect” their heroin operation in Afghanistan. They were sold to the American people as “freedom fighters.”
When the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan, a bloody civil war erupted that killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans. It was all about control of the heroin trade. Drug trafficking was at the heart of the BCCI bank in Pakistan.
According to Fair.org:
The transfer of money allegedly destined for the Afghan rebels to various CIA-backed counterrevolutionary groups is just one of the scandals lurking behind the BCCI scandal. This bank was also a major channel for drug money laundered by corrupt Pakistani military officers, who administered the CIA’s arms pipeline to the Afghan rebels while supplying much of the heroin that inundated the U.S. and Europe during the 1980s, a scandel Time (7/29/91) briefly alluded to.
Despite such revelations, U.S. news media continue to promote the Reagan/Bush administrations’ so-called war on drugs.
All throughout the Reagan and Bush administrations, the American people were told that there was a “war on drugs” happening as untold millions of dollars were being spent to supposedly stem the flow of “CIA drugs” into the United States. It was just another scam—a “war” to steal tax payers money.
The CIA heroin operation in Afghanistan was disguised as just another battle in the Cold War and a way to support freedom fighters. It was a purposeful lie to the American people, and taxpayers’ money was flowing to the very groups causing the heroin epidemic in America. We were funding our enemies.
Afghanistan was a focus of the shadow government from the beginning.
According to WhoWhatWhy.org:
Creating an International Islamist Army: Casey, BCCI, and the Creation of al-Qaeda
The other most significant case in which the CIA became a front for sanctioned violence was CIA Director William Casey’s use of the CIA in the 1980s to promote his own plans for Afghanistan.
Casey’s Afghan initiatives aroused the concern of the CIA’s professional operatives and analysts, including his deputy directors, Bobby Ray Inman and John McMahon. But this did not deter Casey from making high-level decisions about the Afghan campaign outside regular channels when meeting in secret with foreigners.
One man Casey dealt with in this fashion was Agha Hasan Abedi, a close adviser to General Zia of Pakistan and, more important, the head of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI):
William Casey was head of the CIA in the Reagan administration, when George H.W. Bush was establishing the shadow government that would control the entire executive branch. As part of the shadow government, Casey worked outside of normal government channels and met secretly with foreign counterparts, including the close financial adviser to the president of Pakistan and the founder of the CIA established BCCI bank.
Why keep it so secret?
As I shared in my last article, the Bush family was completely connected to the BCCI scandal and were personally profiting from it. It was a massive money spigot.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
Unquestionably, BCCI offered Casey an opportunity to conduct off-the-books operations, such as the Iran-Contra arms deal, in which BCCI was intimately involved. But the largest of these operations by far was the support to the Afghan mujahideen resistance against the Soviet invaders, where once again BCCI played a major role.
Casey repeatedly held similar meetings with General Zia in Pakistan — arranged by Abedi and with Saudi intelligence chiefs Kamal Adham and Prince Turki al-Faisal (both BCCI shareholders).
There were three main intelligence agencies running the BCCI scam: The CIA, and the intelligence agencies from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
As a result of such conclaves, Prince Turki distributed more than $1 billion in cash to Afghan guerrillas, which was matched by another billion from the CIA. “When the Saudis provided the funding, the administration was able to bypass Congress.”
To access the CIA money was relatively easy.
Bags of dollar bills were flown into Pakistan and handed over to Lieutenant General Akhtar Abdur Rahman, the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] director. Rahman banked the cash in ISI accounts held by the National Bank of Pakistan, the Pakistan-controlled Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and the Bank of Oman (one-third owned by the BCCI).
Pakistan is so essential to the CIA/shadow government operations in the Middle East.
In my next article, I will dive deeper into Pakistan as I continue to set the table for the coming 9/11 article.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
Casey’s involvement with BCCI was not just a backdoor operation with a bank; it was a multi-billion-dollar backdoor operation with a criminal bank accused, even by its own insiders, of:
Global involvement with drug shipments, smuggled gold, stolen military secrets, assassinations, bribery, extortion, covert intelligence operations, and weapons deals.
BCCI was set up for one purpose, and it wasn’t to fight communism.
What was the real purpose?
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
There were huge and lasting historical consequences from Casey’s apparently unilateral decision to work with BCCI. One was that BCCI’s drug clients in Pakistan and Afghanistan, notably Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, emerged in the 1980s, with protection from General Zia, as dominant figures in an expanded Afghan heroin drug traffic that continues to afflict the world.
(According to McCoy, BCCI “played a critical role in facilitating the movement of Pakistani heroin money that reached $4 billion by 1989, more than the country’s legal exports.”
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was funded by the CIA through Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and his protected heroin operation was bringing in billions for Bush and the shadow government. Pakistan was being used by Bush to “protect” this very lucrative drug trade.
Bush and the CIA had literally cornered the market on the worldwide heroin trade.
How big was it?
They controlled the Golden Triangle in Asia and now the “Golden Crescent” in Afghanistan.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
It is worth contemplating for a moment the legacy of CIA-supported drug proxies in just two areas — the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent.
In 2003, according to the United Nations, these two areas accounted for 91 percent of the area devoted to illicit opium production and 95 percent of the estimated product in metric tons.
Add in Colombia and Mexico, two other countries where the CIA has worked with drug traffickers, and the four areas accounted for 96.6 percent of the growing area and 97.8 percent of the estimated product.
The CIA controlled almost 98% of the worldwide heroin trafficking because of their Secret War in Laos during the Vietnam War, and now the wars in Afghanistan.
How many millions of innocent lives have been lost due to drug addiction promoted by the CIA? I know people personally whose lives have been ruined by heroin, which is why I feel the need to expose it all. These people are evil.
When the CIA got involved, the drug trafficking massively increased because money was more important than human lives.
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
When the CIA airline CAT began its covert flights to Burma in the 1950s, the area produced about 80 tons of opium a year. In ten years’ time, production had perhaps quadrupled, and at one point during the Vietnam War, the output from the Golden Triangle reached 1,200 tons a year. By 1971, there were also at least seven heroin labs in the region, one of which, close to the CIA base at Ban Houei Sai in Laos, produced an estimated 3.6 tons of heroin a year.
That’s how much the CIA increased heroin production in Laos, but what about in Afghanistan?
More from WhoWhatWhy.org:
Afghan opium production has been even more responsive to US operations in the area. It soared from 200 metric tons in 1980, the first full year of US support for the drug-trafficking mujahideen Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, to 1,980 metric tons in 1991, when both the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to terminate their aid.
After 1979, Afghan opium and heroin entered the world market significantly for the first time, and rose from roughly 0 to 60 percent of US consumption by 1980. In Pakistan there were hardly any drug addicts in 1979; the number had risen to over 800,000 by 1992.
The CIA controlled media criticized Trump for saying that the Soviet Union dissolved because it went bankrupt fighting a war in Afghanistan. They said “correlation is not causation.”
The media says that a war that drained valuable resources and severely damaged the Soviet Union’s economy is not the reason that the nation collapsed and split up.
The United States is around $35 trillion in debt. The interest payments are close to a trillion dollars now, and we are spending a trillion dollars every hundred days. How long until the United States goes bankrupt? How did our nation get strapped with all that debt?
The CIA/shadow government has kept the nation in perpetual war since World War II, which has brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. We have only lasted this long because we are the world’s reserve currency and can print as much money as we need.
How about this correlation?
Did heroin trafficking massively increase because of the wars in Laos and Afghanistan?
Who was waging those wars in “secret?”
Why is the CIA connected to all the major drug trafficking groups worldwide?
Who is the real enemy?
Trump focused on Afghanistan for a reason.
As I said earlier, Afghanistan represented the cabal’s transition from a “never-ending Cold War” against the Soviet Union, into a “never-ending war on terror” that was centered in the Middle East.
War for profit.
The Soviet Union collapsed after they lost the war in Afghanistan.
We should have celebrated a great victory in the Cold War, and Afghanistan should have been better off because they had won their freedom from communism. But unfortunately, they never gained their freedom from the CIA/shadow government. A bloody civil war began in Afghanistan, and it would be a defining moment in American history.
Afghanistan was in chaos and was now going to be the focal point of the worldwide growth of terrorism. The CIA/shadow government was going to create a worldwide terror network in Afghanistan that would both protect their heroin trade and strike fear in the hearts of the American people in order to create support for a never-ending war on terror.
Pakistan was the key. It was a purposeful safe haven for radical terrorists, and the CIA was behind it all.
One person called it out because he actually cared about the Afghan people who were being sacrificed.
According to Spiegel International:
DER SPIEGEL: What does this contest of world powers have to do with the murderous struggle of the Taliban?
Karzai: When things started to go wrong in Afghanistan – around 2005, 2006, when the extremist terrorist attacks started – we talked to the U.S. about the different causes of the violence. We knew that these attacks were being organized by intelligence in Pakistan and carried out by the Taliban. The U.S. confirmed this independently, telling us: Yes, the violence is coming from Pakistan, and yes, the Taliban's sanctuaries are there. But instead of investigating the root cause of the violence and going after it, Washington started to fund Pakistan's military.
The Taliban was being funded, trained and protected in Pakistan by the CIA. Karzai confronted the U.S government on the fact that Pakistan was acting as a sanctuary.
What did our shadow government do? They increased funding to the Pakistan military. This was the same military that was helping to facilitate the CIA drug trafficking operation.
But why?
More from Spiegel International:
DER SPIEGEL: Officially, the U.S. compensated Pakistan for their cooperation in the war on terror and paid for the use of ports and roads for their supplies to Afghanistan. What was wrong with that?
Karzai: The U.S. was supporting both sides of the conflict at the same time. It was dropping bombs on Afghan villages in order to fight the Taliban, while at the same time, funding the very country accused of organizing Taliban terror campaigns. Former U.S. President Donald Trump once announced that America had paid $35 billion to Pakistan over these past 19 years. This contradictory policy cost thousands of Afghan lives – troops and civilians alike. Tell me, how was Afghanistan supposed to come to peace?
Trump wasn’t afraid to call out the real enemy, and knew that the American people were being forced to FUND OUR ENEMIES.
The shadow government was paying Pakistan for the use of ports and roads to supply their private army of freedom fighters who were protecting their heroin trade. Karzai called out the hypocrisy of fighting a “war on terror” in Afghanistan while funding the country that was promoting that same terrorism. But, like most people in the spotlight, he wouldn’t mention the CIA drug trafficking that was centered around the whole war.
More from Spiegel International:
DER SPIEGEL: When it comes down to it, who will decide on war or peace, Pakistan's intelligence service or the Taliban?
Karzai: Ultimately, the Taliban are also Afghans, and I hope they will stand up to foreign influences where necessary, such as in Pakistan. My appeal to Afghans, including the Taliban, is that we come together and finally take our fate into our own hands against all foreign powers.
Who was the real enemy?
Was it the Taliban, or was it Pakistan?
All of the terrorism coming from Afghanistan was being fueled by Pakistan, which was being controlled by the CIA/shadow government.
Pakistan is the key that opens several doors.
In my next article, I will dive deep into Pakistan and the connections to the CIA and Saudi Arabia that helped lead to the creation of Al Qaeda.
I will also reveal an even bigger threat worldwide that Trump took head-on, which has already changed the course of history.
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This feature is a follow-up to ‘Who Is the Real Enemy?’
Way back in 2018, Trump called out a country that has been painted for many decades as a friend of the United States and one of our biggest allies in the “war on terror.”
Trump began bashing this specific country on Twitter and in the media in order to draw a clear dividing line for the American people.
Trump drew a line in the sand between a friend and a foe.
Which country was it?
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Still a young boy in those days. Every Sunday, there will be a copy of the News Sunday Times that my uncle subscribed to since he was still single then and come in the weekend from work from the big city.
ReplyDeleteThe most dramatic and vivid news to a young impressionable mind was the Jonestown graphic. But do remember Yuri Andropov's name on one of those headline.
Those days were spent on playing with the neighbours or watching Vic Morrow's Combat.
Didn't realized will want to read about what exactly happened to those periods.
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https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/afghanistan-russia-programs/2019-01-29/soviet-invasion-afghanistan-1979-not-trumps-terrorists-nor-zbigs-warm-water-ports
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979: Not Trump’s Terrorists, Nor Zbig’s Warm Water Ports
Declassified Documents Show Moscow’s Fear of an Afghan Flip,
U.S. Diplomat’s Meeting with Afghan Leader Helped Put Soviets Over the Edge
Published: Jan 29, 2019
Briefing Book #
657
Edited by Tom Blanton and Svetlana Savranskaya
For more information, contact:
202-994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu
Subjects
Cold War – General
Soviet-U.S. Relations
Wars and Conflicts
Regions
Russia and Former Soviet Union
South and Southwest Asia
Events
Afghanistan – Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989
Project
Afghanistan
Russia Programs
Washington D.C., January 28, 2019 – President Trump’s claim that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to get rid of terrorists who were coming over the border is false, according to declassified U.S. and Soviet documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
Just as false, according to the documents, were the repeated U.S. media assertions at the time, driven by President Carter’s national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, that the Soviet motivation was “the age-long dream of Moscow to have direct access to the Indian Ocean” (Document 8).
Soviet Politburo documents that first became available in the 1990s show the real Soviet fear was that the head of the Afghan Communist regime, Hafizullah Amin, was about to go over to the Americans. (Egyptian president Anwar Sadat famously flipped in 1972, ejected thousands of Soviet advisers, and became the second largest recipient, after Israel, of U.S. foreign aid.)
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Bank of credit and commercial international, malaysia
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. Although the bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London, it had a significant presence in Malaysia. At its peak, BCCI had over 400 branches in 78 countries and assets in excess of US$20 billion, making it the seventh largest private bank in the world.
History in Malaysia
BCCI had a significant presence in Malaysia, with branches and subsidiaries operating in the country. However, the bank’s operations in Malaysia were severely impacted by the bank’s global financial crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1991, the United States’ Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu stated that “there are strong parallels between FTX and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International – better known in bank regulatory circles as BCCI – which failed in 1991 and led to significant changes in how global banks are supervised.”
Legacy in Malaysia
Although BCCI is no longer operational in Malaysia, its legacy continues to be felt in the country’s banking sector. The bank’s failure led to significant changes in how global banks are supervised, and it also led to the establishment of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Malaysia to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
Other Banks in Malaysia
Malaysia has a well-established banking sector with a number of commercial banks operating in the country. Some of the major commercial banks in Malaysia include:
Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad
United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd
OCBC Bank Malaysia
HSBC Bank Malaysia
UOB Malaysia
CIMB Group Holdings Berhad
RHB Bank Berhad
Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad
Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia
These banks offer a range of financial services, including personal and corporate banking, investment banking, and Islamic banking.
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So the Soviet Union on Afghanistan, and now Russia on Georgia, Chechnya , Ukraine, frequently makes decisions to invade neighbouring countries based on delusional fantasies.
ReplyDeleteThe Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan - from the original decision to invade to the subsequent brutal barbaric actions of the occupying Soviet forces against the Afghan population was a terrible disaster.
ReplyDeleteYou deserve a huge medal from the Russian authorities for your unceasing efforts to whitewash this awful travesty.
Mfer, u too deserve a huge medal from the Yankee authorities for your unceasing efforts to whitewash those awful travesties under that 20 yrs of Yankee occupation!
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Scenes from North Korea’s parade for Putin.
It’s safe to say whose side the DPRK are on for WW3.
Russia, China, North Korea, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Iran, etc., are all getting very friendly with one another, and Biden’s regime/NATO are entirely to blame.
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Putin arrives in North Korea for the first time since 2000, to meet with Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un. 🇷🇺🇰🇵
Western MSM are extremely upset about this meeting, indicating that it is probably significant and something to monitor.
Putin is greeted with quite the warm welcome.
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