Danny Gold
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4,199 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Danny Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean the ISI is like one of the
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Yes.
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Quote, certain commanders sought to establish financial independence by deepening their involvement in the heroin trade.
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For example, Nassim Akund Akunzara, whose control zone included the fertile Hellman Valley, enforced opium production quotas for poppy farmers and trucked drug shipments into neighboring Iran, where he could fetch higher wholesale prices.
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Gulbadin Hekmetar and Eunice Kallis, two fundamentalist commanders in eastern Afghanistan, operated heroin labs in the border.
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areas and ran transport and bus companies as a cover for moving narcotics and cash.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know, and when the war first starts, there's actually isn't a ton of money coming in yet.
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There's no funding.
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And these guys are fighting the mighty Soviet army.
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They need more resources.
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Sure, they've got some of those foreign funds coming in eventually, but they turn to opium growth to make that money.
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Some of the more powerful warlords and tribal leaders fighting the Soviets turn to the opium production to start funding their groups, and they even issue a fato eventually saying it's halal or okay.
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Yeah.
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The United States and Saudi Arabia start pouring money and weapons into the Mujahideen resistance, funneled through Pakistan's military intelligence agency, the ISI, and the great overland supply chain of the nineteen eighties comes to life.
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You got guns and money going up the road into Afghanistan, and the trucks ca have to come back down, right?
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With what, you may ask?
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A whole lot of opium.
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Same trucking company and protection up, same trucks and protection down.
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