The Turkish Coup in Context: Redrawing the Map of the CIA Drug TradeBy Rusticus However, the Erdogan v.Glen feud isnt what this article is about; at least not directly. Theres a lot for the curious Reader to sink their teeth into there from the ever-mysterious Glens activities running the largest chain of Charter Schools in America (funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and currently under investigation by the FBI for money laundering) to Recep Erdogans love affair with NATO intelligence just a few years prior. Inquiring minds will quickly concede that this entire Turkish affair is (and has long been)a proverbial rats nest of Intelligencia and regime change. Wherever the rats are scurrying, ones likely to find somecheese close by and the opium flows from Afghanistan bound for the Western world provide plenty of it. Buried among the headlines of the day was a story regarding Turkeys Incirlik Air Baselosing power during the attempted coup. When the lights came back on and the dust settled, Incirliks NATO-led anti-Daesh operations were given the continued green light, though the bases Turkish commander remains in custody. While many have been focused on the concerning amount of American nuclear warheads residing in Incirlik, its position as the drop-shipper of refined Afghan heroin bound for Western marketsis equally pertinent. A politically uncertain climate in Turkey (to say the least)coupled with the general chaos of the region callsthe future of NATOs longstanding Incirlik drug-running operation into question and thats the finestwheel of Dutch Gouda the CIAs had its mitts on since Iran-Contra. Fortunately for the Agency (and correspondingly unfortunate for Americas nonviolent prison population), CIAs response to this Turkish chaos has beenanything but reactionary. In fact, their preparedness for such a contingency began in earnestyears ago to such an extentthat the entire map of the CIAs post-9/11 drug tradeis being redrawn before our very eyes. Readers of Stateless Homesteading will recall that back in November of 2015, we published an article detailing the significant uptick in heroin and cocaine trafficking coming from West Africa an old route once used by CIA front-menMeyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano and their Operation Gladio partners in Lebanon, refined opium would make its way from the Middle East to New York via an airport in Accra, Ghana. With the explosion of Nicaraguan cocaine stemming from Iran-Contra and the boom in Afghan opium that followed, West Africas place in Intelligence-backed drug-running has received far less attention in the modern era; that is, until reports began surfacing in 2013 regarding Accras Kotoka Airportonce again being used for the smuggling of cocaine and heroin. West Africa, after a decades-long hiatus, finds itself in a position of prominence in the international drug trade ensnared not by the grip of Operation Gladio A and the CIA mob syndicate that supported them, but Operation Gladio Band the CIA-backed Salafist boogeymen known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM): Unsurprisingly, the refreshedheroin and coke-smuggling syndicate in Ghana includes at least some amount of sponsorship from officialdom, as the former President of Ghana,John Atta Mills, voiced public concerns that elements of his own administration were involved in the trade. He is now deceased. His predecessor, President John Kufor (2000-2008) shared similar concerns, with cables suggesting suspicions of widespread corruption, including instances where airport security was suspected of tipping off smugglers. In other words, 2013 was not the beginning of the CIAs West African operations it was insteadthe boiling point at which pressure had to be relieved through limited public exposure. With a major scandal from leaked US Embassy cables detailing the Ghanaian polices wholesale cooperation with the drug operation, it was nothing short of a declaration of ownership acoup dtatin its own right: As a major port for drugs bound to the UK, US, South America, and Western Europe as a whole, Ghana has been actively redesigned over the past decade as NATOsbackup of sorts for Incirlik Air Base, with increasing fervor towards this aim beginning in 2013. Ghana is hardly an ideal terminal for would-be drug-runners, though; geographically, its farther out of the way from opium producingregions and farther still from target consumer markets than the Turkish operation currently is. And as the Grand Chessboard in the MENA region is still in the process of being flipped, NATO control of these producing regions generally seemstenuous. In addition to its geographic inconveniences, one of Africas chief illicit crops, cannabis, is proving increasingly unprofitable in anage of Western legalization and decriminalization. But if a lone blogger can put that much together, the CIA is certainly aware of West Africas shortcomings. Opium, as the British learned over a century ago, is the most suitable drug for the aims of population control and Empire. The loss of Afghanistan, currently the worlds largest producer of opium, wouldseemingly be a critical blow to NATO and its Third British Empire. Of this, too, the CIA is keenly aware, as our story now makes a Transatlantic voyage to the Mexican State of Guerrero. Previously, the impoverished Southern Mexican countryside had only a meageraffiliation with heroin production. This has all changed in just a few short years. While NAFTAs Globalized push for Big Agfair trade fruits and vegetables has hardly served to assist the American or Mexican working man, its drug trade certainly has; Mexico, by geographic necessity, is a key trafficking route for Central American cocaine headed to America, as Barry Seal, Oliver North, and a slew of Deep State agents learned during Iran-Contra. So, too, was this lesson learned bythe victims of the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 80s and 90s. And while Peruvian Coke may catch moreheadlines, Central America has also been (to a lesser extent) a heroin producing region. Previously growingonly low-quality brown and black tar heroin, the Central American product was far less preferable compared toAfghan white heroin from the Central Asian Caucasus or poppy from Southeast Asias Golden Triangle of similar quality. But quality heroin has done a bit of Globalization in its own right, as such good dope is no longer the purview of Eastern regions exclusively. Shortly after Colombia and neighboring nations stepped up production of high-grade white heroin, Mexican Cartels (spearheaded by the Sinaloas) abandoned their position as lowly black-tar producers and middle-men, turning Guerreros staple cashcrop from avocados to poppy in just a few short years: Some have even speculated that this global heroin explosion and corresponding quality increase is due, in no small part, to the emergence of Genetically Modified poppy plants. While hard evidence of this claim remains elusive, in a world whereeven GM yeast has proven effective in producing opioids, the thoughtcan hardly be dismissed outright. Speculation aside, theCIAs own World Factbook of 2016 not only notes that Mexico is currently the worlds second largest opium producer behind Afghanistan, but that its dramatic rise in poppy production is statistically significant at a 31% increase from 2008 to 2009, the last year the CIA provides such information. As no researcher Ive yet come across, CIA goons and theirMSM lackeysincluded, hassuccessfullydisputed the work of late journalist Gary Webb in cataloging the Agencys wholesale control over Central and South American drug cartels, Im left only to conclude that these World Factbook statistics are as much the CIAs personalledger as they are a PR initiative: Considering this uptick in heroin production from Southern Mexico corresponds with the timeframe of the now-infamous DOJ gun-running operation known as Fast and Furious, the parallels to Iran-Contra couldnt be more blatant. Though Ive paraphrasedMark Twain before, the quote remains as applicable as it is timeless: History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. This investigation started with questions about the future of the NATO-backed drug terminalrun out of Incirlik Air Base amidst ongoing political instability in Turkey; and while this author has succeeded in documenting CIAs longstanding alternative to Incirlik being rapidly built up in West Africa as well as the fever-pitch of developmentto turn Southern Mexico into the next Northern Afghanistan, I must confess that I do not knowexactly what this spells for the future of Turkish regime change. I can, however, posit a hypothesis: As international gold reserves between West and East are being globalized, world currencyholdings between nations via the SDR are being globalized, and the new energy paradigm of Agenda 21 is being globalized, is it inconceivable to think that the global drug trade, too, is being equitably internationalized? Unfortunately, I dont have the answer to this question but I bet a fly on the wall at last weeks meeting between John Kerry and Vladimir Putin could shed some light on the situation. Perhaps the Queen of Color Revolution herself, Mrs. Victoria Fuck the E.U. Kagan-Nuland, could be on standby for color commentary, as her timely visit to nearby Cyprus discussing the future of Turkey in NATOmere days before the Turkish coup took place is interesting timing, indeed. One thing, however, is certain: Whether or not NATO retains overt control of Turkey (and even Afghanistan), the international intelligencia responsible for the black market drug trade aremore than ready for whatever comes next, up to and including a complete rebalance of power as the region currently knows it. If such meticulous preparedness in bolsteringthis CIA cash crop isnt evidence of foreknowledge of coups, counter-coups, and purges of all colorsin the Turkish political landscape, I dont know what is. The extent of that preparedness, nothing short of the complete reinvention of the Western drug trade, also raises far more questions than it does answers. The undertaking of such a monumental task doubtlessly spells correlating monumental changes for the Middle East, a concerningprospect for a land already drenched in decades of blood and Empire. Like you, Reader, I will be watching for such changes in the coming weeks and months, as I suspect we wont have to wait long to see these schemes come to fruition. Blogging under the pseudonym of Rusticus, the author and freedom activist operates a website tracing the machinations of the Anglo-American Establishment throughout history while simultaneously documenting the process of creating a truly off-grid homestead. (www.statelesshomesteading.com) Ive been saying this for 50+ years: Oil Opium, the O O wars! Nothing new here, but congrats to a well written article and update. Nothing new at all, really! Theyre simply brushing off the dust on their good ol fashioned African routes though certainly a noteworthy development. I stand on the shoulders of Alfred W. McCoy, Peter Dale Scott, Mike Ruppert, Gary Webb, and people like yourself, Hawk, who figured all this out in great detail before I was even born. Perhaps were somewhat bitten by our own success in this regard, though, as despite the meme of the Intelligence Drug Trade entering the popular lexicon, there seems to be far less researchers going into the nitty-gritty details on these topics now that everyone just takes it on face-value that these goons are running drugs somewhere Thanks for the kind words, nonetheless! I just wish younger people were as up-to-date on these topics as seasoned investigators like yourself. Maybe someday! The cia and guns for drugs are sop (standard operating procedure). Indeed! I linked to a talk by Hopsicker on Barry and the Boys in the article, its an excellent book (though a tad expensive). Funny that you mention Royal Families owning drug routes, as the new path through Ghana and Guinea-Bisseau is actually an old stop in the British opium trade An interesting point that Victoria Nuland was in Cyprus discussing Turkeys future role in NATO days before the failed coup in Turkey. This adds to the mounting evidence that the CIA, using their Gulen movement in Turkey, was in back of the coup, as Erdogan claims. As far as the well known CIA drug trafficking goes, It will fail when people stop buying the damn stuff! . failed Maidan . Valuable insight, thank you. You mentioned Lebanon very briefly in your article, Do you have some more interesting details about the CIA drug intersection with Lebanon , I am sure this will be powerful and resounding. Wish you a nice day from Beirut. Turkish people aint middle easterners. Well overcome your selfish capitalism. Ive heard Turks refer to themselves as Middle Easterners and Europeans depending on who you talk to. Regardless of these divisions, however, Turkey is a nation of SMART people. There is no love for Erdogan or Gulen in the circles Im in contact with if only Americans were as politically discerning as Turkey is Are you a Turk yourself, felsefe? How does the average Turk feel about the Gulen/Erdogan feud? Thank you so much Rusticus, appreciate. 