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In a new Stories That Matter video, Joe Trento tells how one of the CIA’s most notorious case officers was brought back by the CIA from Iran-Contra disgrace – a convicted felon and one of the few high-level officials to serve time in prison – to coddle the Karzai family in Afghanistan. It provides historical context to the CIA’s recruiting of drug lords, including using the Laos-Vietnam era case officer to work with Karzai family members with drug connections. This story advances the recent New York Times article on Karzai’s well connected brother.

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Karzai, afghanistan, CIA