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Uma análise das origens da guerra às drogas nos Estados Unidos, ao longo de mais de cinco décadas, e de seus impactos inesperados sobre a cultura, as instituições e o cenário político do país.
Episódio 1: Descubra as raízes da guerra às drogas nos Estados Unidos, desde tentativas secretas de assassinato e experimentos bizarros com LSD até o apoio clandestino do governo a traficantes de heroína.
Episódio 1: Descubra as raízes da guerra às drogas nos Estados Unidos, desde tentativas secretas de assassinato e experimentos bizarros com LSD até o apoio clandestino do governo a traficantes de heroína.
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00:01:51I DO THINK
00:01:53THAT MOST AMERICANS
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00:01:56UTERALLY SHOCKED
00:01:57IF THEY KNEW
00:01:59THEDEPTH OF INVOLVMENT
00:02:01THAT THE CENTAL INTELLIGENCE
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00:02:04IN THE INTOGRAGE DRUG TRAIL
00:02:0611 anos antes da guerra de drogas é declarada, a história começa aqui, em Miami's Fountain Blue Hotel.
00:02:15É um lugar favorito para um dos anos mais doigoso de gangsters.
00:02:21Santo Traficante Jr., born into a poderosa Siciliano mob.
00:02:26Ele é bem conhecido por a FBI como um dos maiores de grande traficação de drogas.
00:02:30Santo Traficante Jr., at one point, had two or three of the most popular casinos in Havana.
00:02:38He was running heroin out of there. These guys were powerful. They were able to get people killed.
00:02:45But Traficante is not here on vacation. He's here to meet with two CIA operatives.
00:02:51What's interesting about the CIA and the Cold War and the war on drugs
00:02:56is that the CIA had so many shared interests with drug dealers and their modes of operation.
00:03:03They're meeting in this hotel to plan the assassination of America's newest Cold War enemy.
00:03:10Gentlemen.
00:03:11Hey, good to meet you.
00:03:12Hey, how you doing?
00:03:13Good.
00:03:15I want a dead, gentlemen.
00:03:17I want a dead.
00:03:18Just two years earlier, Havana was the Caribbean's sin city.
00:03:32Santo Traficante ran a vast criminal network with no fear of arrest, gambling, guns, and girls.
00:03:39But by far, the most lucrative product is heroin.
00:03:45Smuggled from the Middle East, through Marseille, France, via Havana, and onto the United States,
00:03:52they called the route the French Connection.
00:03:55The thing about Traficante and, like, so many of these wise guys, these mafia guys,
00:04:00they would always claim they weren't in the narcotics business.
00:04:03They could say, oh, yeah, I killed 15 guys, but I never dealt heroin, which was just like, oh, okay.
00:04:08The fact of the matter is that they've been involved in the heroin trafficking from the beginning.
00:04:15Traficante made Havana the center of his drug trafficking empire by paying off Cuba's president,
00:04:21Fulgencio Batista, the corrupt dictator, also happened to be on the CIA's payroll.
00:04:32That all came to an end with Fidel Castro's revolution.
00:04:38It was bad enough that we had the Soviet Union that was this threat, but it was far away.
00:05:07Suddenly, it's right at our doorstep.
00:05:10Suddenly, that threat is something that we can actually see.
00:05:14And that created a tremendous amount of anxiety in Washington.
00:05:19Eisenhower's vice president, Richard Nixon, signs off on a covert CIA mission.
00:05:26Take out Fidel Castro.
00:05:28Traficante tells the agency men it can't be done like a normal mob hit.
00:05:52The CIA is, from its very beginning, collaborating with mafiosas who are involved in the drug trade
00:06:05because these mafiosas will serve the larger agenda of fighting communism.
00:06:10At the agency then, and even to this day, morality sometimes has to take a back seat to whatever the final end is.
00:06:37This clandestine document, the Doolittle Report, is the key to understanding the last half century of the CIA's involvement in the drug trade.
00:06:47Issued in 1954, it lays out the core mission for the agency.
00:06:52The Doolittle Report essentially said, we might have to bend the rules a little bit,
00:06:57or we might even have to break the rules in order to combat this very real threat called communism.
00:07:06The CIA undertakes extortion, kidnapping, torture, even murder, plotting assassinations and coups in Iran,
00:07:14Indonesia, the Congo, Guatemala, and now Cuba, where the mafia are natural partners.
00:07:21It doesn't matter, the mafia is also America's largest supplier of illegal narcotics.
00:07:28The CIA enters into a devil's bargain.
00:07:31When you're at war, you will do anything in the short term that it takes to win that war.
00:07:40The CIA delivers the ingredients to carry out Castro's assassination.
00:07:45A suitcase with $150,000 in cash and poison.
00:07:57Travacani agrees to do this, knowing that once you've worked through the CIA,
00:08:01they have two choices, they can either kill you or they can protect you.
00:08:05It's a business decision that has to do with the mafia's crime empire and its prospects for the future.
00:08:15The plot to poison Castro coincides with the planned invasion of Cuba.
00:08:21The newly elected President Kennedy reluctantly signs off on the operation
00:08:25that will be led by a paramilitary force of Cuban exiles trained by the CIA known as Operation 40.
00:08:35Operation 40 were going to go in apart from the brigade
00:08:38and they were going to knock off all the political leaders of Castro's regime.
00:08:48A small group of Operation 40 commandos is headed to Cuban soil.
00:08:54Their goal, make contact with anti-Castro locals and then seize control of the government.
00:09:00One of the leaders is this man.
00:09:04Felix Rodriguez, the son of wealthy Cuban landowners.
00:09:09His uncle is Minister of Public Works under Batista.
00:09:12When his friends are executed in the revolution,
00:09:15he is one of the first to volunteer when the CIA begins forming their plan to take out Fidel Castro.
00:09:21For Felix Rodriguez and the other Operation 40 guys, this was beyond just the mission of the agency.
00:09:28This was something that they were personally passionate about.
00:09:31Rodriguez has been undercover for six weeks when he receives word.
00:09:39What's the status of the air support?
00:09:41The invasion is on.
00:09:42The CIA trained troops land at the Bay of Pigs.
00:09:57But Castro is on to both the poison plot and the invasion plan.
00:10:03And the invasion plan.
00:10:12It's a blood bath.
00:10:16Over 100 CIA trained soldiers are killed.
00:10:201,200 are captured.
00:10:22But Felix Rodriguez and the other leaders of Operation 40 escape to Miami.
00:10:42And it's here in South Florida where many Operation 40 veterans will find a lucrative new trade.
00:10:48This army of Cubans that had been trained by the CIA found themselves seriously underemployed.
00:10:59And they looked around and there was a great way to make money.
00:11:02And they had the skills for it.
00:11:04It was smuggling drugs.
00:11:06The Bay of Pigs may have been one of history's greatest blunders.
00:11:09But the men behind it will play oversized roles when the Cold War and the War on Drugs collide in the years to come.
00:11:15You start having this boom of drugs and lawlessness in Miami, which is the very first experience of blowback from this whole Cuban fiasco.
00:11:25By the end of the 60s, an estimated 20% of America's heroin and 60% of the cocaine are connected to anti-Castro operatives.
00:11:38The seeds of the war on drugs have been planted.
00:11:41The seeds of the war on drugs have been planted.
00:11:42The seeds of the war on drugs have been planted.
00:11:43Sandoz Laboratories
00:12:06Uma das principais fábricas farmacêuticas
00:12:09Two American spies have just arrived
00:12:13The mission cornered the market on the world's supply
00:12:17Of a powerful new psychoactive drug
00:12:19The CIA saw itself as being in a kind of Cold War
00:12:24Psychological warfare arms race with the Soviet Union
00:12:29I would like you to sign for this
00:12:30What's the answer to controlling people and brainwashing them
00:12:35Or getting them to confess? It's drugs
00:12:37The CIA has just authorized the purchase
00:12:40Of 10 kilograms of pure LSD-25
00:12:43Enough to dose more than half the population of the United States
00:12:47Sandoz even supplies the CIA
00:12:49With the receipt and shipping information
00:12:51The CIA was scared stiff
00:12:54That the KGB was going to get all this LSD
00:12:57And come over and start dosing people
00:12:58So we bought every drop of LSD in existence at that point
00:13:03They gave it to George White and let George start dosing people
00:13:07George Hunter White
00:13:25A larger-than-life undercover federal narcotics agent
00:13:29He's known for busting international drug rings
00:13:32At home and abroad
00:13:33But unbeknownst to his supervisors
00:13:37White also works for the CIA
00:13:39His job to conduct experiments for an operation
00:13:43Called Midnight Climax
00:13:45White pays prostitutes to lure their clients
00:13:51To the agency's safe house
00:13:53George had a CIA safe house
00:13:57Stocked with booze
00:13:58George would sit behind this one-way mirror
00:14:01Drinking martinis
00:14:02Sitting on a portable toilet
00:14:04If he had to take a leak
00:14:06He didn't want to get up and leave
00:14:07Hookers would bring these suckers back to the apartment
00:14:17And dosing with pure LSD-25
00:14:28This is where I have my effect
00:14:32In the mind
00:14:33This is lysergic acid diethylamide
00:14:37Better known as acid
00:14:39The powerful drug was first synthesized in 1938 in Switzerland
00:14:43With a dose of mere micrograms
00:14:46The mind becomes confused
00:14:47Perception is distorted
00:14:49Personal identity is called into question
00:14:52The results can be euphoric bliss
00:14:54Or deadly panic
00:14:56White observes the effects
00:15:08Of the acid-laced cocktails
00:15:09On the unsuspecting men
00:15:11White was very much into S&M
00:15:13He would visit prostitutes himself
00:15:15And they would strap him through a bed
00:15:17And whip his butt
00:15:17Recognizing the bizarre behavior brought on by the truck
00:15:25He gives LSD the codename Stormy
00:15:28White takes meticulous notes
00:15:31And files his reports to his CIA handlers
00:15:35So that was how LSD was introduced to this country
00:15:39Operation Midnight Climax is part of a larger top-secret CIA program called MKUltra
00:15:46The goal?
00:15:47Learn how to control and even reprogram people's minds
00:15:50The CIA believes LSD might hold the key
00:15:54Over the next 10 years
00:15:56The agency doses a cross-section of the American public
00:15:59Everyone from unwitting housewives
00:16:02To soldiers
00:16:04To even criminals
00:16:05Like gangster Whitey Bulger
00:16:07Is tested
00:16:08The Allen Memorial Hospital
00:16:24A psychiatric patient is being prepped for treatment
00:16:29But this is no ordinary mental hospital
00:16:36The doctor is now looking for a cure
00:16:39The patient has no idea what they are about to endure
00:16:45Dr. Ewan Cameron
00:16:55The former president of the American Psychiatric Association
00:16:59During the Nuremberg trials
00:17:01He evaluates Nazi war criminals
00:17:03But Cameron has another side to him
00:17:06He's fascinated by the idea
00:17:08That the identity can be erased
00:17:10And the mind reprogrammed
00:17:12While George White's tests become inseparable
00:17:15From his own sexual obsessions
00:17:17Cameron's approach is clinical
00:17:19And deadly serious
00:17:21Cameron was working for the CIA
00:17:25They were looking into brainwashing
00:17:28They were looking into mind control
00:17:30They were looking into how they could create
00:17:33What they called Manchurian candidates
00:17:35Even his own nurses
00:17:39Don't know he is working
00:17:41On a top secret CIA program
00:17:43He was doing a lot of different testing with LSD
00:17:55They were trying to figure out
00:17:58If they could get people
00:17:59To go out and do things
00:18:01That they would ordinarily not do
00:18:03Like assassination
00:18:05Once the subject is dosed
00:18:10With a sufficient amount of LSD
00:18:12Cameron begins to try
00:18:14And reprogram the patient's mind
00:18:16He shocks them with high voltages
00:18:24And forces them to listen
00:18:33To repetitive audio loops
00:18:34For days at a time
00:18:35The drug began to take hold very rapidly
00:18:51Things became very frightening
00:18:54And I became more and more despondent
00:18:56And that I thought
00:18:58I can't live like this any longer
00:19:00But not every subject
00:19:11In the MKUltra program
00:19:13Finds the drug's effects
00:19:14So terrifying
00:19:15The CIA's quest
00:19:17To create mind controlled zombies
00:19:19Is about to have
00:19:20An unintended consequence
00:19:21That will change America
00:19:23You know what the CIA really dreamed of
00:19:28Was sort of like
00:19:28A drug you could give to someone
00:19:30Get them to commit
00:19:32All sorts of unspeakable acts
00:19:33And they wake up the next day
00:19:35And they don't remember
00:19:36What they've done
00:19:36Another CIA LSD experiment
00:19:44Is underway
00:19:45Volunteers have been paid
00:19:48$75 to participate
00:19:50In a research study
00:19:51One of the volunteers
00:19:53Ken Kesey
00:19:55A young writer
00:19:57Wrestler
00:19:58And graduate student
00:19:59At nearby Stanford University
00:20:01He'll go on to write
00:20:02The bestseller
00:20:03One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
00:20:05A nurse turns on
00:20:11A nurse turns on a recording device
00:20:12And asks Kesey
00:20:13What the drug is doing
00:20:14To his brain
00:20:15Would you say
00:20:16An uncomfortable
00:20:17Or uncomfortable
00:20:18Experience
00:20:18I think it's
00:20:20A good experience
00:20:21It's quite as one
00:20:29And I'm high out of my mind
00:20:32Wild color images
00:20:37There's this big
00:20:40Colored frog of a man
00:20:42Outside
00:20:43Standing at the door
00:20:44I look at some
00:20:45Some guys room
00:20:47When the guys
00:20:47All teetering out of the bed
00:20:49And the guys
00:20:50Go
00:20:50Mag
00:20:51Hey
00:20:52Hey Mag
00:20:53The case of MKUltra
00:21:14Has to be one of the
00:21:15Craziest cases of blowback
00:21:17In CIA history
00:21:18Because here they took this drug
00:21:21LSD
00:21:22And thought that they were going to be able to use it
00:21:24To control people's minds
00:21:25And the unbelievable irony
00:21:27Is that LSD
00:21:28Is a drug that does exactly the opposite
00:21:31It frees your mind
00:21:33And causes people to question authority
00:21:35Within months
00:21:37Kesey will be hired as a nurse's aide
00:21:40And given access to the hospital supply of LSD
00:21:43Perhaps the CIA never meant to turn on Ken Kesey
00:21:48But they did
00:21:49Soon he is turning his friends onto acid
00:21:52Then the entire west coast
00:21:55Then an entire generation
00:21:59It created the counterculture
00:22:00As we know it of the 60s
00:22:02All that was a kind of blowback
00:22:05Or a backfire
00:22:06Of the CIA's attempt
00:22:08To control people
00:22:09Turned out to be
00:22:11Just the opposite
00:22:12It was the CIA
00:22:13That introduced LSD to the United States
00:22:16While LSD takes hold in the United States
00:22:37In Southeast Asia
00:22:39A covert CIA war
00:22:41Will fuel a new drug epidemic
00:22:43Heroin
00:22:46The president of the United States
00:22:58Is dead
00:22:59President Kennedy
00:23:01Has been assassinated
00:23:03It's official now
00:23:03The president is dead
00:23:05The United States
00:23:06Is shaken to its core
00:23:08JFK is shot down
00:23:11In the streets of Dallas
00:23:12And Lyndon Johnson takes over
00:23:16As commander-in-chief
00:23:17The war against communism in Vietnam
00:23:21Becomes President Johnson's
00:23:23Most pressing issue
00:23:25What the American public doesn't know
00:23:28Is just across the border
00:23:29From Vietnam
00:23:30In Laos
00:23:31More seeds are being planted
00:23:33For the war on drugs
00:23:34Everybody at the time
00:23:37Was focused on Vietnam
00:23:38But in nearby Laos
00:23:40There was one of the hugest
00:23:42Paramilitary covert operations going on
00:23:45And President Johnson in fact
00:23:47Was under a tremendous amount of pressure
00:23:49To keep it secret
00:23:51Local forces are waging a secret war
00:24:02Against communist guerrillas
00:24:03In the remote Laotian highlands
00:24:05And they're being trained
00:24:07By a legendary CIA operative
00:24:09Tony Poe
00:24:12A World War II fighter pilot
00:24:14He earns two purple hearts
00:24:17In the battle of Iwo Jima
00:24:18After the war
00:24:20He becomes one of America's
00:24:21Most prolific spies
00:24:23Now he's the CIA's man in Laos
00:24:27A lot of people think of
00:24:29Someone like James Bond
00:24:30As the kind of spy prototype
00:24:32You know, suave
00:24:33And wearing a tuxedo
00:24:34In a place like Laos
00:24:36That's not the kind of spy
00:24:38We were sending over there
00:24:39Tony Poe breaks CIA rules
00:24:46And leads a regiment
00:24:47To battle himself
00:24:48If you take a situation
00:24:52Like Laos was at the time
00:24:54That kind of craziness
00:24:56And you insert someone
00:24:57Like Tony Poe
00:24:58That's basically like
00:24:59Adding gas to a fire
00:25:01After the battles
00:25:08He'd send his guys out
00:25:09To chop the ears off
00:25:12Of these dead enemy
00:25:14And then they would
00:25:17Pack the ears up
00:25:18And send them back
00:25:19To the CIA headquarters
00:25:20Like trophies
00:25:21Another thing that they would do
00:25:25Is chop the heads
00:25:26Off their victims
00:25:27And then they would
00:25:27Fly over with helicopters
00:25:28And drop the heads
00:25:30Like bombs
00:25:31On the villages
00:25:32Tony Poe's ally against communists
00:25:48Is a powerful local warlord
00:25:50Vang Pao
00:25:54A resistance fighter
00:25:55In World War II
00:25:56He now commands
00:25:58A ragtag army
00:25:59Of Hmong Hill people
00:26:00Against communists
00:26:02Infiltrating their tribal land
00:26:04Guys like Vang Pao
00:26:06And a guy like Tony Poe
00:26:07Got in business together
00:26:09Because they had a common enemy
00:26:10Which was communism
00:26:11But what Poe doesn't realize
00:26:19Is that Vang Pao
00:26:20Is not just fighting communism
00:26:22He's also lining his own pockets
00:26:25Northern Laos
00:26:28Is in the heart
00:26:28Of the Golden Triangle
00:26:30An area which includes
00:26:31Burma and Thailand
00:26:32Known as one of the most fertile
00:26:34Opium growing regions
00:26:35In the world
00:26:36Here the Hmong
00:26:38Have used opium
00:26:39For centuries as medicine
00:26:41But on the international
00:26:42Drug market
00:26:43The real value
00:26:45Of the poppy's sap
00:26:46Is that it can be refined
00:26:47Into heroin
00:26:48When the CIA
00:26:50Is focused
00:26:52On a mission
00:26:53On a particular end
00:26:55They're not going to
00:26:57Sit down and pontificate
00:26:59About what are
00:27:00What are the long term
00:27:02Global consequences
00:27:03Of our actions
00:27:04Going to be
00:27:05Tony Poe has ordered
00:27:14A CIA plane
00:27:15To drop off weapons
00:27:16And ammunition
00:27:17For the Hmong warriors
00:27:18And to pick up
00:27:19Injured soldiers
00:27:20Women
00:27:21Children
00:27:22And cargo
00:27:23The plane is owned
00:27:28By Air America
00:27:29One of the most important
00:27:33Aspects of fighting
00:27:34Communism in Laos
00:27:35Involved a company
00:27:36Called Air America
00:27:37Which was actually
00:27:38A front for the CIA
00:27:39The CIA plane lands back
00:27:45At this secret base
00:27:46In the Longchen valley
00:27:48In Laos
00:27:49Unmarked on any map
00:27:51It's fast becoming
00:27:52One of the busiest airports
00:27:54In the world
00:27:55But this plane
00:27:58Isn't just carrying
00:27:59The wounded and frail
00:28:00Vang Pau has begun
00:28:06Using Air America
00:28:07To transport
00:28:08His raw opium
00:28:09From the hills
00:28:10To the cities
00:28:11The Hmong people
00:28:12See Americans
00:28:13Coming and going
00:28:14With planes
00:28:15And having the resources
00:28:17To be able
00:28:18To help them
00:28:19Transport something
00:28:20That's been in their culture
00:28:21For decades
00:28:21It's a no-brainer
00:28:23The CIA built Air America
00:28:32To move people
00:28:34And weapons
00:28:34And money
00:28:35Below the radar
00:28:36Well that's identical
00:28:38To what drug traffickers
00:28:40Have to do
00:28:41It's almost inevitable
00:28:43That the CIA
00:28:45And drug traffickers
00:28:46Are continually crossing
00:28:47Through the same worlds
00:28:49Continually using
00:28:50The same methods
00:28:51On a rather intimate basis
00:28:52The CIA
00:28:57Turns a blind eye
00:28:58To Vang Pau's
00:28:59Growing heroin operation
00:29:00But Tony Poe
00:29:03Didn't come to Laos
00:29:04To enrich a local drug lord
00:29:06Tony Poe
00:29:14Hated Vang Pau
00:29:14Because he knew
00:29:15He was selling drugs
00:29:16Tony Poe
00:29:21Was actually
00:29:21The model
00:29:22For Colonel Kurtz
00:29:24In Apocalypse
00:29:25Now
00:29:25At one point
00:29:26I was sitting
00:29:27Talking with him
00:29:28And he was running
00:29:28His hand over his bald head
00:29:30Like Marlon Brando
00:29:31Did in the movie
00:29:32And I said to him
00:29:33Did you get that
00:29:33From Brando
00:29:34Or did Brando
00:29:34Get that from you
00:29:35In 1965
00:29:39The CIA pulls
00:29:41Tony Poe
00:29:41Out of Vang Chen
00:29:43There are probably
00:29:44A lot more Tony Poe's
00:29:45That we don't know about
00:29:46People who went in
00:29:48Believing in the higher cause
00:29:51And then found that there was
00:29:53A lot of activity
00:29:54That they either had to sanction
00:29:55Or turn a blind eye to
00:29:57When your moral compass
00:29:59Starts to stray
00:30:01So far back and forth
00:30:02You can start to lose it
00:30:03As Tony Poe did
00:30:05With Tony Poe reassigned
00:30:10The CIA will send in a new team
00:30:13To help run their secret war
00:30:14In Laos
00:30:15Vang Pao
00:30:16Is now unleashed
00:30:19To continue his drug dealing
00:30:21And that region
00:30:22Becomes the epicenter
00:30:24Of global heroin production
00:30:25What is going to be the theme
00:30:35Of your meeting?
00:30:37Are you going to tell
00:30:38What's bad about LSD?
00:30:39Not necessarily
00:30:43But will LSD be in evidence
00:30:46At the graduation ceremony, Ken?
00:30:49Why don't you guys come?
00:30:53Yeah
00:30:53Five years since Ken Kesey
00:31:04Was first introduced to LSD
00:31:05Through the CIA's MKUltra Mind Control Program
00:31:09He's now a psychedelic convert
00:31:11Committed to spreading the LSD gospel
00:31:14Across America
00:31:15He throws parties
00:31:17Known as acid tests
00:31:19Where LSD-laced Kool-Aid is served
00:31:22And party-goers are invited
00:31:24To achieve a communal high
00:31:26Meanwhile, across the country
00:31:34There's a smaller but growing hippie scene
00:31:37And a group of them
00:31:38Have turned this country estate
00:31:40Into a commune
00:31:41And are about to drop acid
00:31:43Leading them on their acid trip
00:31:48Is Timothy Leary
00:31:50A popular lecturer at Harvard
00:31:52Leary's fascinated by the effect
00:31:55Of psychedelic drugs on the brain
00:31:57LSD was legal then
00:31:59And he was giving it to graduate students
00:32:01To open their minds
00:32:03And like Timothy Leary said
00:32:05Question authority
00:32:07And that's when he became an outlaw
00:32:09Our aim is to transform American society
00:32:12America today is an insane asylum
00:32:15We're going to try to bring about
00:32:16A religious renaissance
00:32:18And a spiritual revolution
00:32:19When he urged people to take LSD
00:32:23The effect that it had on people
00:32:24Was so powerful
00:32:26That they almost treat him
00:32:27Like a guru of sorts
00:32:28Millbrook is a bastion
00:32:34Of old New England
00:32:35Had all these hippies coming in there
00:32:37And Ken Kesey showed up there
00:32:39In his bus with all his merry pranksters
00:32:42And that scared the hell out
00:32:45Of this old blue-blooded
00:32:46Wasp aristocracy
00:32:49That lives in Millbrook, New York
00:32:51Leary's acid crusade
00:32:54Has made him a target
00:32:55A local prosecutor
00:33:02Is on a crusade of his own
00:33:04G. Gordon Liddy
00:33:06A former FBI agent
00:33:08Turned assistant district attorney
00:33:09In Dutchess County, New York
00:33:11Gordon Liddy
00:33:15Was an obscure
00:33:16Anti-drug
00:33:18Right-wing prosecutor
00:33:20In Dutchess County, New York
00:33:22Until he took on
00:33:24Timothy Leary
00:33:25And the LSD movement
00:33:27No one
00:33:29Was as determined
00:33:30To take Leary down
00:33:31As G. Gordon Liddy
00:33:32He just went after Leary
00:33:34With a vengeance
00:33:34Go, go, go
00:33:41Keep your eyes open
00:33:44Watch out for drugs
00:33:44Inside
00:33:45The officers find hippies
00:33:47Tripping on LSD
00:33:49Watching a loop
00:33:50Of a waterfall
00:33:51Are you on drugs?
00:33:53Are you on drugs?
00:33:55Where's Leary?
00:33:57Leary was into
00:33:58Disrupting the
00:34:00Normal culture of America
00:34:02And with LSD
00:34:03That scared the hell out
00:34:08Of this old
00:34:09Blue-blooded
00:34:11Wasp aristocracy
00:34:13That lived in a place
00:34:14Like Millbrook, New York
00:34:15Liddy's men
00:34:17Find a stash of LSD
00:34:18And some marijuana
00:34:21But Liddy
00:34:25Can only arrest Leary
00:34:26For marijuana possession
00:34:27Because LSD
00:34:29Is still legal
00:34:30The marijuana charges
00:34:36Against Timothy Leary
00:34:37Are dropped
00:34:37When it's revealed
00:34:39G. Gordon Liddy
00:34:40Failed to read him
00:34:41His rights
00:34:42But Liddy doesn't give up
00:34:44He continues a relentless
00:34:46Campaign against Leary
00:34:47Tracking his moves
00:34:50Over the course
00:34:50Of the next year
00:34:52Worn down
00:34:55By Liddy's crusade
00:34:56In 1967
00:34:57Leary leaves Millbrook
00:34:59In the east coast
00:35:00And heads west
00:35:01Where the LSD-fueled
00:35:03Counterculture
00:35:04Is in full swing
00:35:05Despite the fact
00:35:08It was the CIA
00:35:09That first introduced
00:35:11LSD to America
00:35:12The drug is now
00:35:14In the hands
00:35:14Of a group
00:35:15That's increasingly
00:35:16Seen as a threat
00:35:17Young people
00:35:19They were fighting
00:35:19For racial justice
00:35:21Inequality
00:35:22They were fighting
00:35:24Against the Vietnam War
00:35:26They were seriously
00:35:27Opposing the government
00:35:29And the drugs
00:35:30Were at the forefront
00:35:31There was this propaganda
00:35:34That the hippies
00:35:35Timothy Leary
00:35:37And LSD
00:35:38Were all part
00:35:39Of a communist conspiracy
00:35:40LSD begins to be distributed
00:35:54By an underground organization
00:35:56Called the Brotherhood
00:35:57Of Eternal Love
00:35:58The Brotherhood
00:36:00Of Eternal Love
00:36:01Was actually
00:36:02An organization
00:36:03Of hippie
00:36:04Mafia drug dealers
00:36:05Dealing specifically
00:36:08In black Afghani hash
00:36:10And then later LSD
00:36:11To keep the cell
00:36:14Of LSD flowing
00:36:15The Brotherhood
00:36:16Will need a brand ambassador
00:36:18Who encompasses
00:36:19Everything the organization
00:36:20Stands for
00:36:21Turn on
00:36:22Tune in
00:36:24Drop out
00:36:25Timothy Leary's
00:36:30Attention grabbing antics
00:36:31Make him the perfect
00:36:32Public face
00:36:33For the movement
00:36:34It was really kind of
00:36:37A political social movement
00:36:38But in order to keep
00:36:40That movement going
00:36:41You need money
00:36:42Fortunately for the Brotherhood
00:36:45Leary has brought with him
00:36:46A rich and connected friend
00:36:48William Mellon Hitchcock
00:36:51Playboy millionaire
00:36:54Owner of the Millbrook estate
00:36:55Where Leary was arrested
00:36:57Billy Hitchcock
00:36:58Was the scion
00:36:59Of one of the most famous
00:37:01Old Walsh families
00:37:03His father was the model
00:37:04For Tom Buchanan
00:37:05And Scott Fitzgerald's
00:37:07Great Gatsby
00:37:08So for the son
00:37:09Billy Hitchcock
00:37:10To now team up
00:37:11With Timothy Leary
00:37:12Was a big scandal
00:37:14Hitchcock begins
00:37:17To help bankroll
00:37:18The Brotherhood's
00:37:19Mass production
00:37:20Of acid
00:37:20It was never about
00:37:23The money
00:37:23But it was always
00:37:24About the money
00:37:25As an entire generation
00:37:29Looks for ways
00:37:30To expand their consciousness
00:37:31The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
00:37:33Moves in
00:37:34To fill the void
00:37:35LSD has escaped
00:37:36From the lab
00:37:37You've got Leary
00:37:38Espousing
00:37:39Turn on
00:37:40Tune in
00:37:40And drop out
00:37:41Huge cultural changes
00:37:43That were taking place
00:37:43In the country
00:37:44The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic
00:38:04A haven amidst the chaos
00:38:07Of San Francisco's streets
00:38:08This man has just taken acid
00:38:15For the first time
00:38:16And he's having a bad trip
00:38:18The doctor treating him
00:38:21Keeps detailed notes
00:38:22But who he's working for
00:38:24Is a secret
00:38:25No one in San Francisco
00:38:27Knows
00:38:27Colonel James Ketchum
00:38:29A psychiatrist
00:38:31In the Pentagon's
00:38:32Top secret
00:38:33Psychochemical warfare program
00:38:35He's obsessed
00:38:37With finding the key
00:38:38To manipulating
00:38:39The mind of the enemy
00:38:40And like the CIA's
00:38:42MK Ultra program
00:38:43He's willing to do
00:38:44Whatever it takes
00:38:45To find the answers
00:38:46He's looking for
00:38:47Here at the Edgewood Arsenal
00:38:57Ketchum first puts
00:38:58His LSD research
00:39:00To the test
00:39:01After ingesting LSD
00:39:05Volunteers are instructed
00:39:06To perform basic military tasks
00:39:09The confused volunteer
00:39:10Needed help
00:39:11As he attempted to traverse
00:39:12Part of an obstacle course
00:39:14Influenced by an obvious
00:39:15Lack of purpose
00:39:16The drugged volunteer
00:39:18Made no effort
00:39:19To traverse the trail of tires
00:39:20And in obvious confusion
00:39:23Wandered aimlessly
00:39:24Through the woods
00:39:25Other trials move
00:39:29Into more dangerous territory
00:39:30Pushing the soldiers
00:39:35To the limits
00:39:36Of sanity
00:39:37How do you feel right now?
00:39:46You just can't figure it out
00:39:47Why?
00:39:48It's hard to figure out
00:39:50It's hard to figure out
00:39:51I don't see it
00:39:52I don't believe it
00:39:52I feel it
00:39:54Reaper! Reaper! Reaper! Reaper!
00:39:58Many of these soldiers
00:39:59Have been offered
00:40:00A powerful incentive
00:40:01To take part in the program
00:40:03Time away from combat duty
00:40:06In Vietnam
00:40:07Just over the border in Laos
00:40:21The CIA's Air America
00:40:23Is increasingly becoming part
00:40:25Of the international drug trade
00:40:27When those planes
00:40:29Were returning
00:40:29To American bases
00:40:31They were often used
00:40:34To bring back
00:40:35Some of the bounty of Laos
00:40:37And that bounty
00:40:39Was heroin
00:40:40In the remote highlands of Laos
00:41:07Communist forces
00:41:08Communist forces
00:41:09Are increasingly threatening
00:41:11To overtake the territory
00:41:12Controlled by CIA ally
00:41:14Veng Pau
00:41:15The situation in Laos
00:41:19Really called for
00:41:20Extraordinary means
00:41:22Conducted by extraordinary men
00:41:23The CIA has sent in
00:41:27A veteran spy
00:41:28To run the Laos operation
00:41:30Ted Shackley
00:41:33Known as the blonde ghost
00:41:35Former head of the CIA's
00:41:39Top secret Miami station
00:41:40Where the CIA ran failed missions
00:41:43To kill Fidel Castro
00:41:44Which included poisoned milkshakes
00:41:46And exploding cigars
00:41:48Now he's here fighting
00:41:50Another secret war
00:41:52The CIA itself
00:41:54Was under a tremendous
00:41:55Amount of pressure
00:41:56To accomplish this mission
00:41:58To fight communism
00:41:59To help finance this war
00:42:07Veng Pau
00:42:09Has been using Air America
00:42:10To traffic heroin
00:42:11But with the war raging
00:42:14Shackley and the CIA
00:42:15Don't just turn a blind eye
00:42:17To the drug trafficking
00:42:18The U.S. provides
00:42:22Veng Pau
00:42:23Two transport planes
00:42:25Now he's able to fly
00:42:28His opium directly
00:42:29To his refineries
00:42:30One right on
00:42:34The American air base
00:42:36The CIA
00:42:39At the same time
00:42:40It was fighting
00:42:40In its mind
00:42:42A very successful
00:42:43Anti-communist war
00:42:45Was also standing up
00:42:47An army
00:42:48Of drug smugglers
00:42:49Veng Pau
00:42:52Is fast on his way
00:42:53To becoming
00:42:53The biggest heroin trafficker
00:42:55In the world
00:42:56And he's got
00:42:58A growing customer base
00:42:59Just over the border
00:43:00In Vietnam
00:43:01One side effect
00:43:02Of this
00:43:03Provert war in Laos
00:43:04Is that
00:43:05There's a lot of heroin
00:43:06In the theater of war
00:43:07And many American troops
00:43:09Get addicted
00:43:10One of my fellow
00:43:22Soldiers
00:43:23Was found dead
00:43:26After a firefight
00:43:28We thought he had been shot
00:43:38And actually
00:43:38He had the needle
00:43:39Stock in his arm
00:43:40Heroin
00:43:44A highly addictive opioid
00:43:46Extracted from the poppy plant
00:43:49And synthesized
00:43:50From morphine
00:43:50Once ingested
00:43:52Morphine molecules
00:43:53Rush opioid receptors
00:43:54In the brain stem
00:43:55That controls
00:43:56The body's survival functions
00:43:58It can lead to intoxicating highs
00:44:01Or shut down
00:44:01The respiratory system
00:44:03And lead to death
00:44:04The rule was
00:44:10You don't get high
00:44:11While on patrol
00:44:12But you can't control depression
00:44:15We were wet
00:44:17During the monsoon season
00:44:1824-7
00:44:19The miserable life we lived
00:44:22We were home safe
00:44:24As the war progresses
00:44:27Two GIs are overdosing
00:44:31Every day
00:44:31A nightclub in Saigon
00:44:52A refuge
00:44:53From the horrors
00:44:54Of combat
00:44:55Sitting at the back of the club
00:45:03Is a man well known
00:45:04To the CIA
00:45:05Mobster
00:45:07Santo Traficante Jr
00:45:09Traficante had
00:45:10Assured protection
00:45:12Back in 1960
00:45:13He was involved
00:45:14In these plots
00:45:15To kill Castro
00:45:16Once you've worked
00:45:18For the CIA
00:45:18You're what they called
00:45:19In that business
00:45:20A million dollar man
00:45:21Traficante is meeting
00:45:24With a Corsican gangster
00:45:25A middleman
00:45:26For another CIA
00:45:27Connected drug trafficker
00:45:29Vang Pau
00:45:30They are discussing
00:45:33A deal
00:45:33That will bring tons
00:45:34Of heroin
00:45:35Into the United States
00:45:37With the booming
00:45:40Heroin trade
00:45:42Which was because
00:45:43Of the influx
00:45:44Of American troops
00:45:45Traficante had to
00:45:48Go out there
00:45:48And make sure
00:45:49That his family
00:45:50Got its fair share
00:45:51The deal allows
00:45:53Traficante
00:45:54To ramp up
00:45:55His operation
00:45:56Soon as couriers
00:45:58Are trafficking
00:45:59Vang Pau's heroin
00:46:00From refineries
00:46:01In Hong Kong
00:46:02Via South America
00:46:03And the Caribbean
00:46:04On to the United States
00:46:07In one shipment alone
00:46:09They smuggle in
00:46:10As much as 20%
00:46:11Of all the heroin
00:46:12Consumed that year
00:46:14The history of the CIA
00:46:16Is really
00:46:17The history of
00:46:18Unintended consequences
00:46:19And blowback
00:46:21With CIA secret wars
00:46:23Being fought
00:46:23In places like Laos
00:46:25They became instrumental
00:46:26In flooding America
00:46:28With drugs
00:46:29By 1970
00:46:41New York City alone
00:46:43Will have over
00:46:44200,000 heroin addicts
00:46:46A lot of people
00:46:47Came back
00:46:47Who had served in Vietnam
00:46:49Addicted to drugs
00:46:50It doesn't help
00:46:51That the economy
00:46:52Is also declining
00:46:54Depressing situation
00:46:56For a young person
00:46:57Who's just spent
00:46:58A year
00:46:58Maybe two years
00:46:59In a terrible
00:47:00And confusing war
00:47:01With the demand
00:47:05For heroin rising
00:47:07A new breed
00:47:08Of homegrown dealers
00:47:09Emerges
00:47:10One of these dealers
00:47:14Has just arrived
00:47:15To check on his operation
00:47:16These women are part
00:47:20Of a production line
00:47:22That runs 24 hours a day
00:47:24They're made to work
00:47:25In the nude
00:47:26So they can't steal
00:47:27The product
00:47:28Pure uncut heroin
00:47:33That's sold
00:47:34By this man
00:47:35I say we gonna make
00:47:37Some money today
00:47:37Or what?
00:47:38Frank Matthews
00:47:39Born in rural North Carolina
00:47:42His first arrest comes
00:47:44At 14
00:47:45When he's busted
00:47:46For leading a gang
00:47:46Of chicken thieves
00:47:47He moves to Brooklyn
00:47:50Where he opens
00:47:51A barbershop
00:47:51As a front
00:47:52For selling heroin
00:47:53The heroin business
00:47:54Has always been controlled
00:47:56By organized crime
00:47:57And then along comes
00:47:59A guy named
00:47:59Frank Matthews
00:48:00At any given time
00:48:15Hundreds of pounds
00:48:16Of heroin
00:48:17Are being diluted
00:48:18And packaged
00:48:19We actually had
00:48:20Two places in Brooklyn
00:48:21The Ponderosa
00:48:22And the OK Corral
00:48:24The thing that fascinates
00:48:25Me is
00:48:26How could you operate
00:48:27Two drug mills like this
00:48:28Busting in 40 women
00:48:30Every day
00:48:30And not anybody
00:48:32Getting suspicious
00:48:33With a nearly unlimited
00:48:35Supply of heroin
00:48:36Coming in from
00:48:37Southeast Asia
00:48:38Matthews begins
00:48:40Building an empire
00:48:41That stretches the length
00:48:42Of the eastern seaboard
00:48:43West of St. Louis
00:48:44They call him
00:48:46Black Caesar
00:48:47That's what I'm talking about
00:48:50Frank Matthews
00:48:51Became one of the biggest
00:48:52Heroin distributors
00:48:53In the world
00:48:54But with the thousands
00:48:58Of addicts
00:48:58That come with
00:48:59Every new deal
00:49:00Matthews will find
00:49:03Himself in the crosshairs
00:49:05Of a very powerful enemy
00:49:06The newly elected president
00:49:09Richard Milhouse Nixon
00:49:11When Nixon came
00:49:13Into the White House
00:49:14It was essentially
00:49:15To clean up
00:49:16This chaos
00:49:17And anarchy
00:49:18In the streets
00:49:19And to impose law and order
00:49:21There was this
00:49:22Legitimate fear
00:49:23That heroin
00:49:24Was going to take over
00:49:26And destroy the United States
00:49:28The grand opening
00:49:38Of an exclusive resort
00:49:39Paradise Island
00:49:41In the Bahamas
00:49:42The crowd celebrating
00:49:44New Year's Eve
00:49:45Is a star-studded collection
00:49:46Of Hollywood actors
00:49:47Politicians
00:49:49And wealthy investors
00:49:50People look back
00:49:52In the 60s
00:49:53And they weren't always great
00:49:53The music was great
00:49:54Rock and roll
00:49:55But then it started
00:49:57To change
00:49:57In 68
00:49:58Was like a turning point
00:49:59Martin Luther King
00:50:00Was assassinated
00:50:01Bobby Kennedy
00:50:02Was assassinated
00:50:03It was the end
00:50:04Of the hippie era
00:50:06Of the 60s
00:50:07Where it was all about
00:50:08Peace, love, and brotherhood
00:50:09Things were starting
00:50:11To turn dark
00:50:12It's been a good year
00:50:17For at least one of the party goers
00:50:18The president-elect
00:50:20Richard Nixon
00:50:21Richard Milhouse Nixon
00:50:23Is no stranger
00:50:24To the White House
00:50:25He served two terms
00:50:27As vice president
00:50:28Under Eisenhower
00:50:29Where he signed off
00:50:31On the secret plan
00:50:32To assassinate
00:50:33Fidel Castro
00:50:34He narrowly lost
00:50:35To Kennedy
00:50:36In 1960
00:50:37By the time
00:50:38He runs for president
00:50:39Again
00:50:40Crime rates
00:50:40Are skyrocketing
00:50:42And he appeals
00:50:43To what he calls
00:50:44The silent majority
00:50:45These besieged
00:50:47Middle-class suburbanites
00:50:49Who fear
00:50:51What at that time
00:50:52Seems to be
00:50:53A society
00:50:53Going through
00:50:55Really profound
00:50:56And negative changes
00:50:57At Paradise Island
00:51:01It all seems
00:51:02A world away
00:51:03But Nixon
00:51:04Has no idea
00:51:05He's celebrating
00:51:06Alongside one of
00:51:07His counterculture enemies
00:51:09William Hitchcock
00:51:12Is the millionaire
00:51:12Playboy
00:51:13And sometimes financier
00:51:15Of the brotherhood
00:51:15Of eternal love
00:51:16He's also invested
00:51:19The equivalent
00:51:19Of 35 million
00:51:21In today's dollars
00:51:22In Paradise Island
00:51:23But Hitchcock
00:51:26Is not the only one
00:51:27At this party
00:51:28Moving large sums
00:51:28Of cash
00:51:29To the Bahamas
00:51:30You could take
00:51:31As much money
00:51:32As you wanted
00:51:32In cash
00:51:33And deposit
00:51:33In banks
00:51:34Down there
00:51:34In the Bahamas
00:51:35And launder it
00:51:36Next thing you know
00:51:37Wired back
00:51:37Into a bank account
00:51:38In the United States
00:51:39And nobody would
00:51:40Ever know
00:51:40That it came
00:51:41As a result
00:51:42Of illegal activity
00:51:43The Bahamas is full of banks
00:51:46That launder dirty money
00:51:47But none will become
00:51:49As infamous
00:51:49As the Castle Bank
00:51:51In trust
00:51:52Founded by a former
00:51:54CIA spy
00:51:55Its clients
00:51:57Its clients include celebrities
00:51:57Like John Fogarty
00:51:59Tony Curtis
00:52:00And Hugh Hefner
00:52:02But Castle
00:52:04Serves another purpose
00:52:06Money that was coming
00:52:10Money that was coming
00:52:10From the drug business
00:52:11Was deposited
00:52:12In these banks
00:52:13And then used
00:52:14To finance
00:52:15Covert CIA operations
00:52:18Drug trafficking is really all about laundering money
00:52:23And it turns out that so is being a CIA officer
00:52:27Because everything the CIA does has to be secret
00:52:31And in order to be secret
00:52:32You have to launder your money
00:52:34Even the president-elect
00:52:37Banks at Castle
00:52:38While Hitchcock is celebrating
00:52:44In the Bahamas
00:52:45Back in California
00:52:48Another of his investments
00:52:49Is working around the clock
00:52:51In this makeshift lab
00:52:59The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
00:53:01Is producing a potent new brand of LSD
00:53:03That they hope will stamp out all competition
00:53:06It will become the most famous acid ever produced
00:53:11They call it Orange Sunshine
00:53:13Orange Sunshine
00:53:15After Sendos LSD25
00:53:17Was the purest LSD manufactured in the world
00:53:21Steve Jobs dropped acid
00:53:26The Grateful Dead
00:53:28It infiltrated music
00:53:30Business
00:53:31Orange Sunshine
00:53:33Was all over the country
00:53:35In the coming months
00:53:40Hitchcock's lab
00:53:42Will produce 10 million hits
00:53:43Enough to dose the entire population
00:53:46Of New York City
00:53:47And L.A.
00:53:49I figured out where we could load
00:53:55The water supply
00:53:56With a 55-gallon drum of acid
00:53:59Timothy Lurie stopped this
00:54:03Timothy said
00:54:05Thou shalt not alter
00:54:08Thy brother's consciousness
00:54:09Without his permission
00:54:11Wow
00:54:13That's Timothy Lurie
00:54:15Timothy Lurie wasn't promoting
00:54:18Go give everybody acid
00:54:19We were
00:54:20Everyone should take LSD
00:54:22But soon
00:54:25The look of Orange Sunshine's most famous advocate
00:54:28Will run out
00:54:29A cop on the night shift
00:54:39Makes a routine traffic stop
00:54:41The driver is LSD evangelist
00:54:48Timothy Lurie
00:54:49The police searched the car
00:54:51And in the ashtray
00:54:53Was a joint and a roach
00:54:55And they busted Timothy
00:54:58For a minute amount of pot
00:55:01Shortly after his arrest
00:55:06He makes a surprise announcement
00:55:08I'm going to run for the governorship
00:55:11Of the state of California
00:55:13I think that we need a new party
00:55:16And by party I mean party
00:55:18Lurie's platform included
00:55:22Among other things
00:55:23Banning football
00:55:24Banning all money
00:55:26Creating a barter system
00:55:27That would kind of take over capitalism
00:55:30The song Come Together
00:55:32Which was written by John Lennon
00:55:34Was actually a campaign song
00:55:35For Timothy Lurie
00:55:37Let the kids get high
00:55:39As a matter of fact
00:55:39President Nixon
00:55:40Why not we all turn on together
00:55:43His Republican opponent
00:55:45Ronald Reagan
00:55:46There is nothing smart
00:55:48There is nothing grown up
00:55:51Or sophisticated
00:55:52In taking an LSD trip at all
00:55:54They're just being complete fools
00:55:56When anti-war protesters
00:56:08Descended on Washington
00:56:09And protested Nixon's policies
00:56:12Nixon probably could smell
00:56:14The marijuana smoke
00:56:16Wafting in through the windows
00:56:18Of the White House
00:56:19And so Nixon associated
00:56:22Marijuana
00:56:23With his political opponents
00:56:25But in the Nixon administration
00:56:29Lurie's old nemesis
00:56:31G. Gordon Liddy
00:56:32Has been brought in
00:56:33By the Treasury Department
00:56:34To hatch a plan
00:56:35To clamp down on drugs
00:56:37And then try and cover
00:56:39That section of the border
00:56:40Okay
00:56:41Sounds good
00:56:43G. Gordon Liddy
00:56:46Was the law and order
00:56:48Figure in the White House
00:56:50And when Nixon
00:56:50Was elected into the White House
00:56:52Nixon saw
00:56:53And Liddy saw
00:56:54That drugs were this
00:56:56Powerful hot-button issue
00:56:58Liddy launches
00:57:04Operation Intercept
00:57:05Shutting down the entire
00:57:072,000-mile border
00:57:08With Mexico
00:57:09Cutting off the source
00:57:12Of most of America's marijuana
00:57:14For over 20 days
00:57:18All vehicles crossing the border
00:57:20Are searched
00:57:21It's the largest operation
00:57:25Of its kind
00:57:26In history
00:57:27The interesting thing
00:57:34About the very beginning
00:57:35Of the war on drugs
00:57:36Many of these acts
00:57:38Were completely symbolic
00:57:40It actually had no impact
00:57:42Whatsoever
00:57:43On the drug trade
00:57:44In the US
00:57:45A few marijuana smugglers
00:57:49May have been apprehended
00:57:50But the most successful
00:57:51Trackers in America
00:57:52Are not waiting in line
00:57:54At the Mexican border
00:57:55A small private plane
00:58:05Is losing altitude
00:58:06Fast
00:58:06The pilot
00:58:11Juan Restoy
00:58:13A former Cuban politician
00:58:15Who fought against
00:58:16Fidel Castro
00:58:17Now a key player
00:58:19In the nation's
00:58:20Largest narcotics
00:58:21Distribution network
00:58:22In 1970
00:58:33There was a plane crash
00:58:33In California
00:58:34Juan Restoy
00:58:35Was flying this plane
00:58:37Turns out that this guy
00:58:38Was a veteran
00:58:39Of the Bay of Pigs operation
00:58:40And a CIA operative
00:58:42Restoy survives
00:58:57But the crash
00:58:58Catches the attention
00:58:59Of federal agents
00:59:01Working on Operation Eagle
00:59:02A national investigation
00:59:04Of narcotic smuggling
00:59:05Thank you very much
00:59:12Ladies and gentlemen
00:59:13For being here
00:59:14The Attorney General
00:59:15Will have a statement
00:59:16And I introduce to you
00:59:17Now the Attorney General
00:59:17Of the United States
00:59:18We have called all of you
00:59:22This morning
00:59:22To tell you about
00:59:24Operation Eagle
00:59:25Which is the code name
00:59:27For the biggest operation
00:59:29Of its kind in history
00:59:3110 a.m.
00:59:33Last night
00:59:34Special agents
00:59:36Of the Bureau
00:59:36Of Narcotics
00:59:37And Dangerous Drugs
00:59:38Made simultaneous raids
00:59:40In Miami
00:59:42New York
00:59:43And Chicago
00:59:44And seven other cities
00:59:47We are very pleased
00:59:51To report
00:59:52That the raids
00:59:53Have already resulted
00:59:54In the arrest of 123 defendants
00:59:59What Attorney General
01:00:06John Mitchell
01:00:06Neglects to mention
01:00:08Is as many as 70%
01:00:10Of those arrested
01:00:11Are Cubans
01:00:12Who fought for the CIA
01:00:13Against Fidel Castro
01:00:15The agency's secret war
01:00:17Against communism
01:00:18Has given rise
01:00:20To an entire generation
01:00:21Of drug traffickers
01:00:22Cuban exiles
01:00:24Trained by the CIA
01:00:26For the Bay of Pigs
01:00:27Had all these skills
01:00:28In radios
01:00:29Flying airplanes
01:00:30Boats
01:00:31And apply these skills
01:00:32To smuggling drugs
01:00:34The crackdown on drugs
01:00:47Begins to attract
01:00:48Unlikely allies
01:00:49Elvis Presley
01:00:52The king of rock and roll
01:00:53Has seen better days
01:00:55Elvis has developed
01:00:56A prescription drug habit
01:00:58That includes uppers
01:00:59Downers
01:01:00And needles
01:01:01Doctors are on call
01:01:02To provide an endless
01:01:03Supply of drugs
01:01:04At the time
01:01:08Elvis Presley
01:01:09Was essentially
01:01:10A stone junkie
01:01:12He also was obsessed
01:01:14With firearms
01:01:14He actually wanted
01:01:17To obtain
01:01:17A drug agent badge
01:01:20From Nixon
01:01:20So he could safely
01:01:21Travel the world
01:01:23With his drugs
01:01:24And firearms
01:01:25Elvis wrote this
01:01:33Rambling letter
01:01:35Requesting a visit
01:01:36With Nixon
01:01:36Impressed all these
01:01:37Concerns
01:01:38And the communists
01:01:39In the entertainment
01:01:40Industry
01:01:40The un-American people
01:01:42Foreign acts
01:01:43Like the Beatles
01:01:44That were coming over
01:01:45To our country
01:01:46And subverting
01:01:48Clean cut
01:01:48American youth
01:01:49The letter works
01:01:53And Nixon agrees to meet
01:01:55Being seen with
01:01:58A rock and roll legend
01:02:00Makes for a public
01:02:00Relations coup
01:02:01For the president
01:02:02But it's also part
01:02:05Of a larger strategy
01:02:06If you look at
01:02:08The wider framed photos
01:02:10There's Elvis Presley
01:02:12There's President Nixon
01:02:14And there's this
01:02:15Young man
01:02:16Wearing glasses
01:02:17And he was this
01:02:19White House
01:02:19High-end
01:02:20Political fixer
01:02:21And his name was
01:02:22Eagle Bud Crow
01:02:24Eagle Bud Crow
01:02:26As Nixon's deputy
01:02:28Of domestic affairs
01:02:29He'll help hire
01:02:31G. Gordon Liddy
01:02:32And they will
01:02:32Spearhead policies
01:02:33That will lead
01:02:34To the declaration
01:02:35Of the war on drugs
01:02:37And that's why
01:02:38Bud Crow brought in
01:02:39Elvis Presley
01:02:40He was the drug guy
01:02:41Elvis gets his badge
01:02:45But there's no record
01:02:47Of the king
01:02:48Ever performing
01:02:49Any drug bus
01:02:50Meanwhile
01:02:55At a state prison
01:02:56In California
01:02:57One of Nixon's
01:02:59Political enemies
01:02:59Is beginning a sentence
01:03:01For a small amount
01:03:02Of marijuana
01:03:03Timothy Leary's run
01:03:05For governor
01:03:05Has been cut short
01:03:07But the underground
01:03:10Hippie organization
01:03:11The Brotherhood
01:03:12Of Eternal Love
01:03:13Doesn't want their
01:03:14LSD guru
01:03:15To die behind bars
01:03:17Timothy was one of us
01:03:18So Timothy being
01:03:19In prison
01:03:20We weren't gonna
01:03:21Let him down
01:03:22Brotherhood was
01:03:25Extremely well financed
01:03:27So the Brotherhood
01:03:29Hires the weatherman
01:03:30To break Leary
01:03:31Out of prison
01:03:32Launched by radical
01:03:34Students in 1968
01:03:36The Weather Underground
01:03:37Has turned into
01:03:38A violent
01:03:39Revolutionary organization
01:03:40Carrying out bombings
01:03:42Across the United States
01:03:44For a rumored
01:03:47$20,000 fee
01:03:48The Weather Underground
01:03:49Breaks Timothy Leary
01:03:51Out of prison
01:03:52After they break
01:03:54Him out of prison
01:03:55He ends up in
01:03:56Algeria
01:03:57While he's in
01:03:58Algeria
01:03:58He hooks up
01:03:59With Eldridge Cleaver
01:04:00And a lot of the
01:04:01Black Panthers
01:04:02Who were also
01:04:02On the lam
01:04:03It's an audacious move
01:04:10But the Brotherhood
01:04:11Doesn't lay low
01:04:11For the rest of 1970
01:04:13One of their associates
01:04:15Will attempt
01:04:15One of the most brazen
01:04:16Drug distribution
01:04:17Stunts of all time
01:04:19Laguna Beach, California
01:04:2525,000 young people
01:04:28Have gathered for an outdoor
01:04:29Rock concert
01:04:30To celebrate the counterculture
01:04:32The idea initially
01:04:34Was just to have
01:04:34A woodstock type rock concert
01:04:36But some of the local
01:04:37Artists decided
01:04:38That it would be better
01:04:39To give a kind of
01:04:39Spiritual connotation
01:04:41To try to avoid
01:04:42Any unnecessary law enforcement
01:04:44Scrutiny
01:04:44But it became
01:04:46Completely out of control
01:04:47One of the Brotherhood
01:04:50Of Eternal Love's associates
01:04:52Has hired a private plane
01:04:54And it's flying
01:04:55Towards the festival
01:04:56The plane flew over
01:05:02The Christmas happening
01:05:03It dropped thousands
01:05:06Of Christmas cards
01:05:08And in the middle
01:05:09Is a tab of orange sunshine
01:05:10It's just a legendary moment
01:05:16In the counterculture
01:05:16History of the United States
01:05:18An actual acid drop
01:05:20From the sky
01:05:21On a huge crowd
01:05:22Of young Americans
01:05:23Over the past decade
01:05:46Secret government drug tests
01:05:50And covert CIA operations
01:05:52Have unleashed a wave of drugs
01:05:57Into the United States
01:05:58It's fueled the counterculture
01:06:00And increasingly
01:06:02Anarchy in the streets
01:06:04The economy's starting to falter
01:06:06There's riots in the
01:06:07Major cities of the United States
01:06:09So all these things
01:06:11Are coming to a boiling point
01:06:13The Nixon administration
01:06:15Is looking at this
01:06:16And going my god
01:06:16What are we going to do
01:06:17We can put the controls
01:06:19Back on our society
01:06:21That seems to be out of control
01:06:22We're going to declare
01:06:23A war on drugs
01:06:25June 17th 1971
01:06:49President Richard Nixon
01:06:51Is about to make
01:06:52One of the most important speeches
01:06:54In presidential history
01:06:56Do you want to join me here
01:07:02Won't you be seated please
01:07:03Ladies and gentlemen
01:07:04Come on Dr. Jaffe
01:07:05Standing next to the president
01:07:1231 year old drug policy guru
01:07:14Bud Krogh
01:07:15Standing to his left
01:07:17His boss
01:07:18Nixon's chief counsel
01:07:19John Ehrlichman
01:07:21Ladies and gentlemen
01:07:24I would like to summarize
01:07:25For you the meeting
01:07:27That I have just had
01:07:28With the bipartisan leaders
01:07:29Which began at 8 o'clock
01:07:30And was completed
01:07:31Two hours later
01:07:32America's public enemy
01:07:35Number one
01:07:36In the United States
01:07:37Is drug abuse
01:07:39In order to fight
01:07:41And defeat this enemy
01:07:42It is necessary
01:07:43To wage
01:07:44A new
01:07:45All out offensive
01:07:46This will be
01:07:48A worldwide offensive
01:07:49Fundamentally
01:07:50It is essential
01:07:52For the American people
01:07:53To be alerted
01:07:54To this danger
01:07:55To recognize
01:07:56That it is a danger
01:07:57That will not pass
01:07:58With the passing
01:07:59Of the war in Vietnam
01:08:00Which has brought
01:08:02To our attention
01:08:03The fact that
01:08:04A number of young Americans
01:08:05Have become addicts
01:08:07As they serve abroad
01:08:08This offensive
01:08:09Deals with the problem there
01:08:11But will then go on
01:08:13To deal with the problem
01:08:13Throughout America
01:08:15President Nixon
01:08:17Never actually uses the word
01:08:20But for everyone listening
01:08:21It's clear
01:08:22Richard Nixon
01:08:23Is declaring
01:08:24A war on drugs
01:08:26The briefing team
01:08:28Will now be ready
01:08:30To answer any questions
01:08:31On the technical details
01:08:32Of the program
01:08:32Nixon proclaiming
01:08:37This war on drugs
01:08:38Is this epic moment
01:08:39Nixon standing up
01:08:42As the law and order president
01:08:43We'll proceed
01:08:45In about five minutes
01:08:46Nixon has launched
01:08:48One of the most expensive
01:08:49And politically complicated
01:08:50Initiatives ever attempted
01:08:52But behind the scenes
01:08:55There's another agenda
01:08:57At work
01:08:57In the eyes
01:08:59Of the inner circle
01:09:00Of the Nixon administration
01:09:01The war on drugs
01:09:02Brought together
01:09:03The peace movement
01:09:05The hippies
01:09:06The counterculture
01:09:07African Americans
01:09:08All of this stuff
01:09:10Can be captured
01:09:11And addressed
01:09:12By force
01:09:13With law enforcement
01:09:15Under the rubric
01:09:17Of the war on drugs
01:09:18And the trick
01:09:19Is to
01:09:20Create a system
01:09:21That deals with this
01:09:22Without appearing to
01:09:24This announcement
01:09:27This morning
01:09:28Is the culmination
01:09:29Of a project
01:09:30That began
01:09:31About a year ago
01:09:32It'll be decades
01:09:34Before one of
01:09:35Nixon's top advisors
01:09:37Will allegedly admit
01:09:38To a magazine writer
01:09:39This deception
01:09:40Behind the origin
01:09:41Of the war on drugs
01:09:43The Nixon campaign
01:09:46Had two enemies
01:09:47The anti-war left
01:09:48And black people
01:09:49We knew we couldn't
01:09:50Make it legal
01:09:51To be either against
01:09:52The war or black
01:09:53But by getting the public
01:09:54To associate the hippies
01:09:56With marijuana
01:09:56And the blacks
01:09:58With heroin
01:09:58And then criminalizing
01:10:00Both heavily
01:10:01We could disrupt
01:10:02Those communities
01:10:02We could arrest
01:10:03Their leaders
01:10:04Rape their homes
01:10:06Break up their meetings
01:10:07And vilify them
01:10:09Night after night
01:10:09On the evening news
01:10:10Did we know
01:10:11We were lying
01:10:12About the drugs
01:10:13Of course we did
01:10:16We got a problem
01:10:18With the blacks
01:10:19We got a problem
01:10:20With the hippies
01:10:20What are we going to do
01:10:21We're going to declare
01:10:22A war on drugs
01:10:24And we criminalize
01:10:25These elements
01:10:26And we broadcast it
01:10:27All over the nightly news
01:10:29We can put the controls
01:10:31Back on our society
01:10:33That seems to be
01:10:33Out of control
01:10:34Right, right, okay
01:10:40Fine
01:10:41Nixon soon finds himself
01:10:44Increasingly frustrated
01:10:45By the war on drugs
01:10:47Lack of progress
01:10:48And grills his inner circle
01:10:49For answers
01:10:50Are we properly organized?
01:10:53In terms of our
01:10:53Being properly organized
01:10:55Right now
01:10:55Quite honestly
01:10:56We're not
01:10:57We have 350,000 police officers
01:10:59In the United States
01:11:00And their resources
01:11:01Are not being utilized
01:11:02How many of them are
01:11:04Involved in
01:11:06Isn't there quite a bit
01:11:10Of corruption
01:11:10In many of the police
01:11:11Departments in major cities
01:11:13We read a lot about this
01:11:14We talk about
01:11:15Respect for law
01:11:16You've got to have law
01:11:17That deserves respect
01:11:18Inner cities are increasingly
01:11:21In the grip
01:11:22Of a heroin epidemic
01:11:23Drug related deaths
01:11:25Are up to a thousand a year
01:11:27In New York City alone
01:11:28Junkies steal
01:11:31To finance their addictions
01:11:32And police corruption
01:11:33Is rampant
01:11:34NYPD narcotics detective
01:11:37Frank Serpico
01:11:38Tells the mayor's commission
01:11:40That cops are paying
01:11:41Off their superiors
01:11:42For a transfer
01:11:43To the narcotics division
01:11:44I saw what was going on
01:11:50Being transferred
01:11:52To the Gold Coast
01:11:54As it was called
01:11:55Where there was big money
01:11:57Of course
01:11:58Narcotics was where
01:11:59The money was
01:12:00Cops would notify
01:12:04Drug dealers
01:12:05Whenever some other cops
01:12:08Were going to raid
01:12:09Their place
01:12:10There was no limit
01:12:14There was no morality
01:12:16Cops are also putting drugs
01:12:19On the street
01:12:20And in one of the strangest
01:12:22Coincidences
01:12:23In the war on drugs
01:12:25Fact will collide
01:12:26With fiction
01:12:26A movie called
01:12:28The French Connection
01:12:29Is a favorite
01:12:30For an Academy Award
01:12:31It tells the story
01:12:32Of an NYPD 1962 bust
01:12:35Of the famous
01:12:35French Connection
01:12:36Heroin smuggling network
01:12:38Run by gangsters
01:12:39Like Santo Trafficante
01:12:41So this great movie
01:12:43So this great movie comes out
01:12:44The French Connection
01:12:45Gene Hackman
01:12:49Plays the narcotics cop
01:12:50Who made the big
01:12:53French Connection bust
01:12:54For ten years
01:12:58The confiscated heroin
01:13:00Is thought to be held
01:13:01In a secure
01:13:02Manhattan police lockup
01:13:03So they had all this heroin
01:13:06That they busted
01:13:07And it was in the property
01:13:09Vault
01:13:09In NYPD custody
01:13:12Open them up
01:13:13But when they ultimately
01:13:16Went down there
01:13:16To get it
01:13:17We got a problem
01:13:23They found it was gone
01:13:24Large amounts of heroin
01:13:27From the famous
01:13:27French Connection bust
01:13:29Had been stolen
01:13:29From the police evidence room
01:13:31And replaced with flour
01:13:3370 million dollars worth
01:13:36Of heroin
01:13:37Goes from NYPD
01:13:39Into the streets
01:13:40Of New York City
01:13:41And they couldn't figure out
01:13:43Well what happened
01:13:43Of course we know what happened
01:13:44The cops stole it
01:13:45And amazingly
01:13:46As people are sitting there
01:13:47Watching the movie
01:13:48French Connection
01:13:49That heroin
01:13:50Was on the streets
01:13:51Of New York
01:13:52Being sold to dealers
01:13:53And drug addicts
01:13:55The French Connection
01:13:57Heroin robbery
01:13:58Remains the single
01:13:59Largest theft
01:14:00In American history
01:14:01And it was done
01:14:03By the police themselves
01:14:05The French heroin
01:14:06Was big
01:14:07It corrupted
01:14:08New York City
01:14:09It corrupted
01:14:09The New York cops
01:14:10It corrupted everybody
01:14:12While drugs
01:14:16Are corrupting
01:14:17The nation's police
01:14:18The White House
01:14:19Itself
01:14:20Will soon be engulfed
01:14:21In its own
01:14:22Criminal conspiracy
01:14:23Abort
01:14:27I repeat
01:14:28Abort
01:14:29Get out of there
01:14:29Hello
01:14:31Hello
01:14:31Hello
01:14:33Good evening
01:14:42We have a mystery story
01:14:44Out of Washington
01:14:45Five people have been arrested
01:14:46And charged with breaking into the headquarters
01:14:48Of the Democratic National Committee
01:14:50In the middle of the night
01:14:51One year to the day
01:14:54After President Nixon declares a war on drugs
01:14:57His law and order presidency
01:14:59Is about to unravel
01:15:01One of Nixon's top lieutenants
01:15:05G. Gordon Liddy
01:15:06Is arrested for trying to break into
01:15:08The Democratic National Committee's headquarters
01:15:11When his five burglars
01:15:15Are interrogated
01:15:16It's revealed
01:15:18They're part of a secret
01:15:19White House team
01:15:20That includes an ex-CIA officer
01:15:23And four former
01:15:24Anti-Castro operatives
01:15:26As Congress begins hearings
01:15:30Investigating just how high
01:15:32The plot goes
01:15:33Mr. Ehrlichman
01:15:33Are you telling me
01:15:34That the break-in
01:15:34To Dr. Fielding's office
01:15:35Was to satisfy
01:15:36The President of the United States
01:15:37Across the country
01:15:41Another kind of conspiracy
01:15:44Is brewing
01:15:45A casino in Vegas
01:15:48The East Coast's biggest heroin dealer
01:15:51Is enjoying a run
01:15:53On the roulette table
01:15:54Frank Matthews
01:15:55Was ahead of his time
01:15:56Because he was
01:15:57The Al Capone
01:15:58Of African American drug dealing
01:15:59But Frank Matthews
01:16:06Is not in town
01:16:07Just to gamble
01:16:08The drug trade is changing
01:16:12And he wants to find a way
01:16:14To stop the growing violence
01:16:15Just recently
01:16:19One of Matthews' top dealers
01:16:21Was gunned down
01:16:22In a popular nightclub
01:16:23How y'all doing?
01:16:28Yo, you good?
01:16:29So he's called a summit
01:16:31Of the country's
01:16:32Top black drug lords
01:16:33A lot of people
01:16:35In law enforcement
01:16:36Will tell you
01:16:36That when the mob
01:16:38Was in control
01:16:38Of the neighborhoods
01:16:39There was a lot less crime
01:16:40The days of strain
01:16:42With the Italians
01:16:43They're over now
01:16:44Y'all hear me?
01:16:45Over
01:16:45This is our time now
01:16:47This is our time
01:16:48Now you had the emergence
01:16:49Of these gangs
01:16:51That were cutting out
01:16:53The mob
01:16:54It created these turf wars
01:16:56And these battles
01:16:56What I'm saying
01:16:58First though
01:16:58We got it together though
01:16:59Without killing each other
01:17:00His objective was to form
01:17:02Some kind of network
01:17:03Where they can work together
01:17:05Rather than kill each other
01:17:06This business is ours now
01:17:08All the way
01:17:09That's it
01:17:10That's it
01:17:11But before he can see
01:17:12His dreams of unity fulfilled
01:17:14He's arrested in Vegas
01:17:18Matthews jumped bail
01:17:20On July 2nd, 1973
01:17:23And has never been seen again
01:17:25To add to the mystery
01:17:28The testimony of nine
01:17:30Of his French connection suppliers
01:17:32Is suppressed
01:17:33For national security reasons
01:17:35By the CIA
01:17:36Frank Matthews may be one of the few
01:17:42Of the big drug kingpins
01:17:43Who actually got away
01:17:45But unlike Matthews
01:17:47Most of the guys
01:17:48Who were involved
01:17:48In the drug trade
01:17:49Were getting hammered
01:17:50With these huge sentences
01:17:52Possibly the most enduring legacy
01:17:54Of Nixon's war on drugs
01:17:56Is a series of laws passed
01:17:58In New York State
01:17:59Life sentence for pushers
01:18:02We saw guys coming in
01:18:03Who were like
01:18:04Low-level street dealers
01:18:06With 20, 30 years time
01:18:08Under what are known
01:18:10As the Rockefeller drug laws
01:18:12Anyone caught with more
01:18:14Than four ounces of drugs
01:18:15Even marijuana
01:18:17Faces a 15 year to life sentence
01:18:20It's the same as
01:18:21Second degree murder
01:18:22Other states soon follow suit
01:18:24Rockefeller drug laws
01:18:26Reverberate to this day
01:18:28Because
01:18:2990% of the people
01:18:31Who were arrested
01:18:32Under those laws
01:18:33Were black and brown
01:18:34Before the man
01:18:55Who declared
01:18:56America's war on drugs
01:18:58The battle has come
01:18:59To an early end
01:19:00The irony
01:19:04Of Nixon
01:19:06Championing a war on drugs
01:19:08Is his own criminality
01:19:09The guy leaves office
01:19:11In disgrace
01:19:12For their roles
01:19:21In the Watergate scandal
01:19:22Four of the key architects
01:19:24Of the war on drugs
01:19:25Will go to prison
01:19:26The former attorney general
01:19:29Who spearheaded
01:19:30Operation Eagle
01:19:31John Mitchell
01:19:32The senior advisor
01:19:35Who introduced Nixon
01:19:36To Elvis
01:19:37Bud Krogh
01:19:39The president's chief counsel
01:19:41John Ehrlichman
01:19:43And the former prosecutor
01:19:46Who first made his name
01:19:47Trying to take down
01:19:48LSD guru
01:19:49Timothy Leary
01:19:50G. Gordon Liddy
01:19:52Will be sent
01:19:52To a Connecticut
01:19:53Federal prison
01:19:54And it's here
01:19:57Where one of the
01:19:57Strangest connections
01:19:58In the history
01:19:59Of the war on drugs
01:20:01Will be made
01:20:02The federal prison
01:20:15At Danbury
01:20:15Connecticut
01:20:161974
01:20:17Richard Nixon's
01:20:20Dirty tricks mastermind
01:20:22G. Gordon Liddy
01:20:24Is here serving time
01:20:26For his role
01:20:26In the Watergate break-in
01:20:28When Gordon Liddy
01:20:29Found himself
01:20:30In federal prison
01:20:31And he found a fellow
01:20:32Inmate there
01:20:33Carlos Lader
01:20:34Carlos Lader
01:20:38A Colombian car thief
01:20:40Who will soon change
01:20:41The face
01:20:41Of the drug trade
01:20:42Liddy had all these ideas
01:20:44About the will to power
01:20:46To impose your will
01:20:48On circumstances
01:20:49And do heroic things
01:20:50As an individual
01:20:51Lader was completely
01:20:53Inspired by this man
01:20:55This weird admiration
01:20:57Society built up
01:20:58Carlos Lader
01:20:59Started dressing like him
01:21:00Started talking about
01:21:02The same ideas
01:21:03And Carlos Lader
01:21:05Would then get out
01:21:06And basically flood
01:21:08America with cocaine
01:21:09And as a founding member
01:21:12Of Pablo Escobar's
01:21:13Medin cartel
01:21:14He'll revolutionize
01:21:16A new drug trade
01:21:17The power dynamics
01:21:23That forged the war
01:21:24On drugs
01:21:25Will now reverberate
01:21:27Across five decades
01:21:28Sometimes people say
01:21:30That the war on drugs
01:21:32Really wasn't about drugs
01:21:33And they state that
01:21:34Like that's news
01:21:35It's only news to people
01:21:41Who just haven't been
01:21:42Paying attention
01:21:43Of course it wasn't
01:21:45About drugs
01:21:45There was a fraud
01:21:50It was a political
01:21:51Maneuvering
01:21:52That was designed
01:21:54To keep certain aspects
01:21:56Of the culture under control
01:21:59In many ways
01:22:03The counterculture
01:22:04Was a product
01:22:05Of the CIA
01:22:06LSD program
01:22:08That released it
01:22:09Into the populace
01:22:11All of these individual
01:22:13Experiences
01:22:13That people had
01:22:14Taking LSD
01:22:15Collectively
01:22:17Completely altered society
01:22:19What's really remarkable
01:22:21Is that a lot of these
01:22:23Patterns that have their
01:22:25Origins in the 1960s
01:22:27Become cyclical
01:22:29Virtually all of the CIA
01:22:34Activities abroad
01:22:36Always came on the backs
01:22:37Of drug smuggling
01:22:39And drug financing
01:22:41And we're going to see
01:22:44Those relationships
01:22:46Develop again and again
01:22:47Throughout the war on drugs
01:22:49The war on drugs
01:22:52Is not about one thing
01:22:53It's about many things
01:22:54In relationship
01:22:55To each other
01:22:56On the next episode
01:23:14Of America's war on drugs
01:23:16Pablo Escobar
01:23:18Had tremendous political ambition
01:23:20If you're going to mess
01:23:22With Pablo
01:23:23You know
01:23:23Pablo will kill you
01:23:24This is
01:23:26An outlaw regime
01:23:27They're flying
01:23:28Secret shipments
01:23:29Of weapons down
01:23:30And then coming back
01:23:32The cocaine
01:23:33I'm going after
01:23:35The drug dealers
01:23:36That they were protecting
01:23:37We were really
01:23:41Playing Russian roulette
01:23:42With our lives
01:23:43And you
01:23:45It went all the way
01:23:46To the White House
01:23:47You basically have
01:23:50A secret CIA operation
01:23:51Laid there
01:23:52It was really hard
01:23:54For me to fantasize
01:23:55That something so small
01:23:57Could be so valuable
01:23:58It was like
01:24:00This is what
01:24:01I was made for
01:24:02That it was really hard
01:24:03During the time
01:24:03To the point
01:24:03To be
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