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Discover the CIA's shocking involvement in drug trafficking on this week's episode. From their role in the crack epidemic to their assistance of drug kingpins, we'll explore the evidence and reveal the truth behind these allegations. Join us on a journey to Central and South America, the Middle East, and Asia on Air America, courtesy of the CIA! If you have any questions or topics you'd like to see the society cover, please reach out at Contact@hushhushsociety.com You can find all our audio, blogs and drop sweet ratings at www.hushhushsociety.com Leave us a review on Apple, our website, Podchaser or GoodPods You can grab Hush Hush merch and help support the show on Patreon Link up with the society on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter Join our Discord and chat with us TRANSCRIPT CIA[00:00:00] Declassified Dave: Greetings Hushlings Hustronauts and Hushtilians welcome back to the Hush Hush Society conspiracy Hour Mystery Mike: Where we journey into the world of conspiratorial mysteries and dark truthsDeclassified Dave: I'm Declassified Dave.Mystery Mike: And I'm Mystery Mike and as always we're joined by our shadowy CIA agent Slick Fronk Sanders.Slick Fronk Sanders: Hey yo, Slick Fronk Sanders here. Mike, Dave. Good evening. Top of the mornin'Mystery Mike: how are we doing boys? Are we feeling loosey goosey?Slick Fronk Sanders: Goosey loosey all day, baby.Declassified Dave: Yeah. [00:01:00] Mm-hmm mm-hmmMystery Mike: guys ready to run some drugs?Declassified Dave: absolutely.Slick Fronk Sanders: I mean sounds illegal but that could be funDeclassified Dave: Why don't you let Busta do a line of Coke off your boner. In this addition, we will have an internal investigation of the CIA yet again, and their involvement in trafficking, drugs, like cocaine, heroin, LS, D, and other substances to urban U.S. Communities, as well as the countries, they were secretly operating and trafficking in.Slick Fronk Sanders: We look into some of the allegations, some clandestine and shady operations, the people that were involved in possibly one of the most massive topics of conspiratorial debate, accusing the CIA.Mystery Mike: before we cut in and get a little taste of the good white gold, be sure to check us out on all our social Medias you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as always as well as our discord, where we host the XFiles [00:02:00] watch parties every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern standard time. Very easy to find our discord server.You can go to our website and you can get the link over there. You can also play some video games with us on our Twitch. You can visit the official website for all things, hush, hush society, and find the links at hushhushsociety.com.Declassified Dave: There, you can find all of our episodes from our debriefings, just like this one, declassified discussions, Cryptid Chronicles, purchase some Hush Hush, apparel, read some news and poke around at some new conspiracies in our juicy ass blog section and the ability to drop that ever coveted review on Spotify, apple, Google podcast, Podchaser, wherever the hell you listen to podcasts.Give us five stars. Tell us we're awesome.Slick Fronk Sanders: Receive your official cloak in the mail and become a patron today for just $5 a [00:03:00] month. You can join the society as an official Hushling, no blood sacrifice, no ritual involved, no strings, no gimmicks. Just $5,Declassified Dave: Maybe blood.Slick Fronk Sanders: maybe blood, if you feel so inclined.Mystery Mike: and those cloaks are one size fit allSlick Fronk Sanders: Yeah. And they're coming from wish.com. So, I mean, give it a while.Mystery Mike: they barely fit over your head.well over there, you'll get unlimited access to exclusive debriefings, which come out every third, Thursday of the month, you can relax to cryptid erotica readings. With myself. Mm feels nice. And monthly conspiratorial news in the Fronk Factor with Slick Fronk Sanders and Declassified Dave.Declassified Dave: as well as merch drops, giveaways, more news and early episode release privileges. Join today at [00:04:00] www.patreon.com/hushhushsociety Slick Fronk Sanders: Hushlings in other news, we hope you are enjoying your preceptors in Hi-Fi you can find clips and other videos on our YouTube channel, which is now fully up to date. You can click the link on our website or search on YouTube for hush, hush society for all of that good stuff. Mystery Mike: Well, boys, it is the beginning of summer let's get the barbecue going and let's grill the central intelligence agency. See what I did there. See what IDeclassified Dave: Fuck. Yeah. Barbecues,Slick Fronk Sanders: whoa.Mystery Mike: Crackin' a cold one.Declassified Dave: Hush Hush Society Conspiracy Hour is brought to you by Coors light. No, I'm just kidding.Slick Fronk Sanders: Oh, man.Declassified Dave: side note guys, we got hit with copyright infringement on 27 club because whatever intro song we used, we didn't get copyright infringement for saying sponsored by Nike in heaven's gate. So Slick Fronk Sanders:that's a good, that was a win we're, we're not on Nike's radar yet. That's why,Declassified Dave: Yeah. That's whyMystery Mike: they're coming for us, except [00:05:00] they're coming for us with sponsorship offers. Hey guys, we heard you talking about cults. we're gonna recreate some Nike Decades just for the Hush Hush SocietySlick Fronk Sanders: hell yeah. How dope, how awesome would thatbe? Mystery Mike: Geez. I don't even care how much they charge. Slick Fronk Sanders: They're gonna pay us to wear 'em.Mystery Mike: All right, let's begin with a quick breakdown of this entire scandal and or operation. What were the CIA supposedly trafficking throughout areas of the globe?Declassified Dave: Funny you ask crack cocaine and heroin for the most part yet, there was definitely some good indicators that marijuana or cannabis was used in similar ways. That brick weed.Mystery Mike: Physically had to get that out.Slick Fronk Sanders: come on. It's so fun. Picking out all the seeds, you know, you love it. Mystery Mike: isn't that like the bonus? You get the seeds and the stem so that you can grow your own brick weed.Slick Fronk Sanders: I thought you meant the bonus so that when you're smoking the little seed pops and give [00:06:00] you a littlejolt. Mystery Mike: I wouldn't know anything about that. I don't do drugs. Slick Fronk Sanders: no. I learned all of this from Rick and Morty.Mystery Mike: I'm not a drugger and a villainoidSlick Fronk Sanders: these claims have led to investigations by the United States government, including hearings and reports by the house of representatives, the Senate department of justice and the CIA's office of the inspector general. Declassified Dave: Now guys, granted, we are only skimming the surface of this topic and we probably should revisit it at some point, maybe season seven. but let's see what we can get through today.Mystery Mike: The history of the CIA and their shady operations are quite lengthy and extensive. So for us to get through it all in one episode will be very daunting. So let's, as Dave said, let's see, We begin our run in France in 1937. Illegal heroin labs were discovered near Marseille, Corsican gang leader Paul [00:07:00] Carbone was in charge of these labs For years the Corsica n underworld had been involved in the production and distribution of heroin, primarily in the United States. This heroin network became known as the French connection over time. Declassified Dave: That won't go good in fondue man.Slick Fronk Sanders: Did you just make up a saying, is that.Mystery Mike: New saying of the hush hush society. That won't go good in fondue.Declassified Dave: that. Black tar won't do too well in fondue.Well, after world war II, the CIA and the S D E C E, which is an external intelligence agency that operated in France from 1944 to 1982, protected the Corsican gang in exchange for their assistance in preventing French communists from seizing control over Marseilles' old port. Mystery Mike: Hmm. Slick Fronk Sanders: Also on the 15th of August in 1951. Point stre [00:08:00] experienced a poisoning outbreak characterized by acute psychotic episodes in a variety of physical symptoms. There are around 250 people involved, including 50 people who were detained in asylums and four deaths.Mm-hmmDeclassified Dave: . Remember we talked about that one in, was it MK ultra, way back in our second ever episode. that was pretty crazy because what was it supposed to be like? They claimed it was gonna be like wheat fungus or some type of Mystery Mike: which apparently is pretty common. Declassified Dave: was the same type of fungus or something similar that.Derived into LSD. Right. We talked about, there was a, doctor that created LSD in Switzerland, Slick Fronk Sanders: Yeah. And he went on his famous bicycle ride. Yeah. Yeah. Mystery Mike: Majority of academic sources acknowledge naturally occurring ergo poisoning in rye flour as the origin of the epidemic, as we just kind of delved into, although a minority speculate on other factors, [00:09:00] such as mercury or even the CIA drugging people with LS D and mass quantities.Declassified Dave: that's probably what it was.Slick Fronk Sanders: gotta give him the benefit of the doubt. It definitely could have just been. Or got poisoning, right? Declassified Dave: it's common, I guess, Slick Fronk Sanders: for, for sure. Probably not.Mystery Mike: It's not like the CIA would ever do anything like that. They would never poison people in mass. Why would they do that?Declassified Dave: During the period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet union and the respective allies also known as the cold war, there was an operation called operation midnight climax. And we also talked about this in our second ever debriefing. And we talked about it in depth.We poked.Mystery Mike: Yeah. Slick Fronk Sanders: Oh yeah. How, how could we not get into depth on midnight climax, which in fact started in 1954, it consisted of a web of [00:10:00] CIA run, safe houses in San Francisco.It was established in order to study the effects of L S D on non-consenting individuals. You see prostitutes on the CIA payroll were tasked with luring clients back to the safe houses where they were unknowingly given substances, including L S D and monitored behind one way glass.TheyMystery Mike: You guys remember talking about that during our MK ultra episode, kind of a creepy thing to think about this, like Boston based FBI, CIA. Operative, whatever he was just sitting behind this glass and like a white wife beater, just feverishly, just going to town on himself.Slick Fronk Sanders: had toilets back there too. Right? Cause they just had to stay there allnight.Mystery Mike: Imagine how hot it had to be because there were no windows in there. It was essentially just a glorified closet. Declassified Dave: a porta potty with a [00:11:00] hole.Mystery Mike: The prostitutes were instructed in the use of post codal questioning. Sounds like me and my wife to investigate whether the victims could be convinced to involuntarily reveal secrets. Hmm.Declassified Dave: Sounds hot.Slick Fronk Sanders: now, was it possible that they were possibly sponsored by Vaseline and or Kleenex?Mystery Mike: More like TrojanDeclassified Dave: You're gonna need a lot of Kleenex. CanMystery Mike: Trojan and Haynes wife beater. Undershirts.Declassified Dave: You imagine just that, that guy that's in there, you said he was, he was a Boston based operative, right? One of the guys, and he's just sticking to the chair and he is like, oh my God.I'm Mystery Mike: Oh my, oh Declassified Dave: naked. Oh my God, Bobby, I'm sticking to the chair and you just hear like,Mystery Mike: Oh, just peeling Slick Fronk Sanders: he's just so fucking hot. At some point, he has to get out of that room and he busts into the hotel room. And this dude is like peeking [00:12:00] on LSD and somebody busts out of the wall button naked. And he's from Boston. You're in San Francisco. You've never met a Bostonian in your life and you guys are just screaming ateach other in the Mystery Mike: Nightmare nightmare nightmare. Slick Fronk Sanders: Had to have been terrifying. Mystery Mike: Moving on to a headliner of the CIA's drug plots, the crack epidemic, which was the increase of crack cocaine consumption in major cities across the us, mostly during the early to late 1980s and the early 1990s.Slick Fronk Sanders: Now the bulk of cocaine delivered to the us in the early 1980s, arrived in Miami. Obviously having originated in Columbia, which had been smuggled through The Bahamas and the Dominican Republic, African American families were mostly concentrated in low income inner city neighborhoods at the time as a result of racial segregation and discriminatory activities by real estate brokers, this resulted in crack [00:13:00] having a considerably greater impact on African American communities than on other communities.Yeah,Declassified Dave: is some shitty real estate brokers. There's also some other statistics, the homicide rate for African American males aged 14 to 17, more than quadrupled between 1984 and 1989. While the homicide rate from males aged 18 to 24, nearly doubled as well.Mystery Mike: That's actually pretty staggering. And if you think about it, a lot of that has to do, obviously with the introduction of crack cocaine into those neighborhoods, not only as consumers, but also as sellers and dealers. Slick Fronk Sanders: There's the old saying that crack killsand it Mystery Mike: This is very true. Looking at it. You can see the increase of gang activity also, because then you have groups of people getting together, forming these gangs so that they can pedal the crack so that they can have some sort of force and some sort of [00:14:00] backing behind them to gain these territories, to ultimately make more money off of the neighborhoods that they're dealing to.introducing crack into these neighborhoods, definitely perpetuated a lot more violence and a lot more messiness into those overall communities Declassified Dave: Interestingly enough, as of 2014, the United States was the world's largest overall consumer of drugs. figures. Yay. A hundred percent. yeah, in my experiences. I see people on crack multiple times a day.Mystery Mike: You are super lucky. Declassified Dave: And more than one, I mean, and you could see probably five or six in an hour, if you're really lucky, depending on what neighborhood you're in. Mystery Mike: need new roommates. The CIA's anti-drug unit accidentally sent a metric ton of cocaine into the United States from Venezuela in 1990, as part of an operation to infiltrate and acquire evidence on drug organizations.According to the us [00:15:00] government, of course. Uh, how quick question, how do you accidentally send a metric ton of cocaine into a neighborhood in theUnited States Slick Fronk Sanders: so I hate to say it, but most things CIA related, I directly translate it to American dad. And I don't know how familiar you are with the show, but it like, it surrounds this nuclear family and the father is a CIA agent and he's got this like wicked irresponsible boss, supervisor, guy. Who's like the head of the CIA.And that's totally something that he would say in one of the episodes like, oh, well, Stan, we accidentally sent a metric ton of crack cocaine into your neighborhood. You have to take care of it I think that's something that, that could happen. Probably not. They might write it off that way.Mystery Mike: That cocaine would eventually go o…
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