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December 13, 2010

Jailed Afghan Drug Lord Exposed as CIA Informant
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The New York Times is reporting one of Afghanistan’s most powerful drug
lords in recent years was also a longtime paid informer for the CIA and
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Times details how in 2006,
at the height of his power as a drug lord, the Bush administration
secretly flew Hajji Juma Khan to Washington for a series of clandestine
meetings with CIA and DEA officials. The meeting took place even though
the United States was receiving reports that he was on his way to
becoming Afghanistan’s most important narcotics trafficker and was
paying off Taliban leaders and corrupt politicians in President Hamid
Karzai’s government. Juma Khan was eventually arrested in 2008, but the
United States never disclosed his role as an informer.



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