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Part of the U.S. strategy in 20 years of war in Afghanistan? Weakening poppies

In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop.

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