Warlords Sing for Viagra
28 December 2008, by pillgirl
IT’S NOT LIKE they’re just wantonly doling out sex pills. When CIA operatives in Afghanistan trade Viagra for information they use discretion.
We don’t give it to young guys, a retired operative told the Washington Post (in different words). It’s the older guys — you know, the warlords, the chieftans. And they really need it.
How else can a declining patriarch with husbandly duties to four younger wives reassert his authority?
According to the CIA op who spilled the “largely classified” tactical beans, Pfizer’s little blue potency pills “yield a bonanza of information [not just about the previous night’s escapades, but also] about Taliban movements and supply routes.”
But, rest assured. Apparently it’s legal. A senior U.S. intelligence official tells the Post that CIA teams are trained to use tactics “consistent with the laws of our country” — which must be why the op who swapped Viagra for intelligence in the article first established that the chieftan was in good health. Just like a real doctor. Though, how he established it must be more than “largely classified,” because the article doesn’t say.
