Report: CIA Dropped Modified Poppy Seeds to Sabotage Afghan Opium Trade
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
The CIA's secret poppy seed operation proves America's genuine commitment to fighting the Afghan drug trade, thereby saving countless lives. For over a decade, the agency developed innovative non-violent methods to reduce heroin production by distributing modified seeds that would naturally cross-pollinate and weaken opium potency. This creative approach avoided harmful herbicides while targeting the root of the problem. Amid all the conspiracy theories seeking to destroy the Agency's reputation, the Washington Post Report sets the record straight.
Establishment-critical narrative
The report of the CIA's alleged poppy seed drops is just another cover story for the U.S.'s decades-long protection of the Afghan heroin trade, and emerges just as Washington is desperately demonizing Venezuela's Maduro government. It's widely known that U.S. forces consistently partnered with drug-running Afghan warlords, ignored trafficking by government officials and restored opium production after the Taliban had successfully eliminated it. The real conspiracy isn't fighting drugs — it's profiting from them through complicit banking systems.
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