Claim: CIA Tried Diluting Afghan Opium for Over a Decade

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched a secret operation to weaken the country’s opium industry, which had become one of the main sources of income for armed groups. For more than a decade, the agency dropped billions of modified poppy seeds from airplanes across Afghan farmland. These seeds were designed to grow poppies that looked normal but produced almost no morphine, the key ingredient in heroin.

This covert plan began around 2004 and lasted for over ten years. It was so secret that even some top officials in Washington and Kabul had no idea it existed. The CIA obtained legal permission through a special classified document signed by the U.S. president. More

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