Episode 565 • • 1:20:34 - 1:25:54
565: Spy in a Bag
BBC Drug Smuggling Report, CIA Involvement and American Gangster
The BBC reports on small-scale drug smugglers executed on the Iran-Afghanistan border, which the hosts dismiss as a distraction from large-scale trafficking. They suggest that five thousand tons of opium cannot be moved in "secret compartments" of trucks and point to the CIA's historical use of military transport for drugs. The film American Gangster is cited as a realistic depiction of how such operations function.