According to a disclosure by The Washington Post, during the 20-year war in Afghanistan at the beginning of this century, the United States dropped various powerful munitions from the air. However, it is unknown that these conventional munitions also included hundreds of millions of tiny poppy seeds. This was a bold and highly classified program carried out intermittently by the CIA from 2004 to 2015 — secretly controlling the lucrative opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan by spreading specially modified seeds into Afghan fields. These seeds grew into plants that almost did not contain the chemical components that could be refined into heroin. This plan, which was revealed years ago, coincided with Trump's drug war against drug cartels in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. According to insiders, the initial seeding operations were conducted at night by secret operation personnel using British C-130 transport planes to avoid detection. They scattered hundreds of millions of specially developed seeds over the vast poppy fields in Afghanistan, mainly in Nangarhar and Helmand provinces, which had the most poppy cultivation. As far as is known, genetic modification technology was not widely used at the time, and those special seeds were developed through long-term breeding and selection, containing fewer alkaline chemicals that can be used to make heroin. Specific data on the budget, number of air drops, and effectiveness of the program remain classified. The operation was highly classified, and some high-ranking officials at the Pentagon and the Department of State who were involved in formulating Afghanistan policy at the time said they were unaware or only heard rumors. When the CIA launched the program, it did not inform the Karzai government in Afghanistan at the time. It is still unclear whether Afghans later discovered the secret.
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