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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The Underworld Podcast · The Heroin Warlord of Pakistan: Armed Tribesman, the CIA, & a Smuggling Empire · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

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Mm. voice-verified

And you can bet the Pakistani political military elite, of which Afridi was incredibly adept at ingratiating himself with, were getting rich off it. voice-verified

Remember, he's the one who controlled the trucks and logistics in the area. voice-verified

They need him. voice-verified

Says Peters quote If the Mujahideen's involvement in the poppy trade was cause for concern, more worrisome still were the Pakistan military's links to heroin trafficking. voice-verified

70% of the world's supply of high grade heroin was produced in or smuggled through Pakistan. voice-verified

By 1984, according to European police estimates. voice-verified

There was widespread evidence that the covert pipeline run by the ISI, which brought weapons and material by truck and donkey to the Afghan guerrillas, funneled out vast amounts of heroin. voice-verified

In 86, two Pakistani military commanders are arrested with over 200 kilos of pure heroin, then released. voice-verified

So you've got these widespread sort of heroin networks and widespread corruption. voice-verified

And these labs being in like the tribal areas where there's little federal govert government oversight, the government of Pakistan basically, you know, they're pretty hesitant to act. voice-verified

And the Americans, they're not about to do anything either. voice-verified

Plus you've got the Soviet war kicking off a massive wartime economy, which is more great news if you run a trucking company. voice-verified

So you've got refugee camps that need feeding, feeding needs trucking, the resistance needs arming, arming needs trucking, and every convoy, every warehouse, every checkpoint waiver is a favor in somebody's ledger. voice-verified

A man with trucks, warehouses, armed men, and the trust of the tribes on both sides of the Duran line, which is the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, is like a single voice-verified

Man infrastructure. voice-verified

And the man who owns the road is happy to keep it open for everybody because everything that moves on it is either in in either direction, in every sense, pays. voice-verified

So inside that goal rush, what does Ayyub Fridi build? voice-verified

He builds a machine. voice-verified

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