Many people may not have known about all the drugs being transported by Air America back during the Viet Nam days. The book "CIA Black Ops" covers this type of material as well, plus the cocaine shipments during the Reagan years, back when crack was so cheap.
http://www.flipkart.com/cia-black-op...422-nsx3fapgmc
Kudos to the New York Times, and to reporters Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen, for their lead article today reporting that Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghanistan’s stunningly corrupt President Hamid Karzai, a leading drug lord in the world’s major opium-producing nation, has for eight years been on the CIA payroll.
During the Vietnam War, the CIA, and its Air America airline front-company, were neck deep in the Southeast Asian heroin trade. At the time, it was Southeast Asia, not Afghanistan, that was the leading producer and exporter of opium, mostly to the US, where there was a heroin epidemic. DAVE LINDORFF
http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10282009.html