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by RaceWon 2975 days ago
I believe it was in the book "Everything We Had" (although I am not certain of the source, because I read about it a while ago) that the only reason we were in Nam, was so the CIA could protect the Poppy plants which they needed to fund their Black Ops.
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you need to read better books
You're a clever bastid
Sorry, did I say that out loud??
It seems it was not in the aforementioned book after all, which btw was a good read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traf...

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