Uploaded by fairinfowar on May 23, 2010 The US protecting opium fields in Afghanistan, maintaining the addiction of Wall Street and the CIA to billions of dollars in profit. more than 95 percent of the revenue generated by opium production is siphoned off to business syndicates, organized crime and banking and financial institutions. In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital, said Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said last January. In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking systems main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor. Former Managing Director and board member of Wall Street investment bank Dillon Read, Catherine Austin Fitts, has long alleged that the banksters launder imponderable amounts of drug money. According to the Department of Justice, the US launders between $500 billion $1 trillion annually. I have little idea what percentage of that is narco dollars, but it is probably safe to assume that at least $100-200 billion relates to US drug import-exports and retail trade, writes Fitts. The CIA has long secured the lucrative global drug market for Wall Street and for its own operational off-the-books purposes. The CIAs operational directorate, in other words thats their covert operations, para-military, dirty tricks — call it whatever you want — has for at least 40 years that we can document paid for a significant amount of its work through the sales of heroin and ...