Deadly Crop of Afghani Misogyny

White House drug policy chief John Walters refers to the report as �disappointing.�   �It's almost the devil's own problem,� CIA Director Michael Heyden says of poppy production in Afghanistan.  

Afghanistan 2006

�In addition to a 26 percent production increase over past year -- for a total of 5,644 metric tons -- the amount of land under cultivation in opium poppies grew by 61 percent. Cultivation in the two main production provinces, Helmand in the southwest and Oruzgan in central Afghanistan, was up by 132 percent.� (1)

Celebrity Profile

�Supermodel Kate Moss was "discovered" at 14 by �the Storm Modeling Agency � Through the 1990s and early 00s, she was one of the world's most recognizable models ... Moss starred in a series of Calvin Klein ads through the 1990s, spurring a period of waify "heroin chic" in the modeling world, which emphasized emaciation and de-emphasized breasts. Moss was photographed with utterly blank face, as if stoned or exhausted. Klein reported[ly] paid her �1 million a year �� (3)

New York, 1972

"[CIA official] Mr. Meyer urged several of his old friends among [publisher] Harper and Row's senior management to provide him with a copy of the galley proofs of my [Alfred W. McCoy�s] history of the international narcotics traffic, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. In this book I show the complicity of various US agencies--particularly the CIA and the State Department--in organizing the Southeast Asian drug traffic since the early 1950s �� (4)

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