Oh, the CIA is no stranger to this game. They've been controlling the illicit drug trade the world over for many decades now. Several of the cartels are directly under their control.
How do you think they fund all their black ops ("off the books" operations) so that government auditors can't see what they are really doing, behind the scenes?
"That tyranny has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is wealth; (for by wealth only can the tyrant maintain either his guard or his luxury). Both mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, Book V, 350 B.C.E
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