Bangladesh, Sept. 14 -- For decades Washington has proclaimed a global crusade — against terror, against narco-trafficking, against money laundering. Yet a growing body of evidence and longstanding allegations suggest a very different pattern: that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), operating under the cover of “covert action”, has repeatedly tolerated, enabled or even fostered illicit economics when it served narrow geopolitical goals. From the poppy fields of Afghanistan to the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia, and now into the borderless realm of cryptocurrencies, the same shadow play of strategic expediency and plausible deniability is visible. What passes in official rhetoric as the “war on drugs” o...