How Elite Special Operations Troops Created a Drug Cartel

Reason ^ | 08/12-2025 | Matthew Petti

[GrootheWanderer]

A few months before he was killed, Dumas gave Huff a USB drive with a letter naming soldiers involved in a wider network trafficking opiates from Afghanistan. Huff, who read the letter, called it an "insurance policy" and "seriously incriminating shit." Three other people independently mentioned the letter to Harp on the record. After Huff was arrested, the USB drive was seized by the Winston-Salem Police Department—which told Harp that the drive was completely empty.

[GrootheWanderer]

Remember all those mysterious murders around Fort Bragg? Looks like they were related.

[Wilderness Conservative]

In the Viet Nam war our own guys were shipping heroin back to the US in the bodies or soldiers killed in combat. It’s painful to say but we have some real scumbags in the military.

[Lowell1775]

“I have a particular set of skills.”

Power will be abused by even the best of us at some point.

Teaching someone they are elite and better than others, that laws and rules just get in the way and do no apply to them.....this quickly becomes “if governments do it, why not me”....such rationalizations are what drive these things to happen over and over again through time.

[9YearLurker]

It was more, higher up, than just a couple of rogue troop members.

[logi_cal869]

Interesting.

[Larry Lucido]

“told Harp that the drive was completely empty.”

I believe there may be a lesson here. If only there was some way to make copies of stored information.

[The Louiswu]

… we have some real scumbags in the military.

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Imagine that, an organization that recruits people to blow stuff up and kill people has some unsavory individuals in its ranks🙄 who knew.

[wafflehouse]

After Huff was arrested, the USB drive was seized by the Winston-Salem Police Department—which told Harp that the drive was completely empty.

the 3-2-1 backup rule

[Wuli]

I knew i guy who kept his Vietnam drug connections after he returned to the state’s. He made a lot of money stateside which he funneled into legit investments he got very rich on.

[Wilderness Conservative]

And dirty cops should be excused as well, right? What was your angle? Selling stolen weapons from the armory?

[ansel12]

Jimmy Buffet did that, used his drug running money from his boat runs to invest in businesses.

[piasa]

Kennedy family did that with alcohol

[ansel12]

Yep, same crime built their family wealth.