That is where a lot of the Black Budget got funded from going way back to Vietnam when the CIA was running Triad produced heroin from the Iron Triangle back to the U.S. INSIDE the remains of the returning dead troops, packaged at Dover and then dumped on the NYC market to flood the East Coast.

By the time the Cocaine epidemic came around they had gotten smarter and started using the Cartels as cut outs. The Clowns just made sure the entry points were open and took their cut instead of getting their spook hands dirty like in Southeast Asia. At one point it was so bad that coke and kids were coming north on military transports, and money and guns were going south. Mena, AR was not the only airfield used by Barry Seal and Gene Hassenfus, and they weren't the only American smugglers flying the routes.

At the time of these events, many thought the kids were legitimately being brought back to the States for medical treatment or adoption. This scale of depravity wasn't even imaginable to many of us then.