CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:36am   
... multibillion dollar drug trafficking organization from pakistan. we focussed on the top production laboratories working for haji bagcho. the areas where haji bagcho's ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:36am   
... multibillion-dollar drug trafficking organization from pakistan. so up through 2008 we focused on the top production laboratories in the nangahar province working for haji bagcho. the area where haji bagcho's ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 1:29am   
... still in pakistan. so november 2007 dea fasted another search none of which showed haji bagcho was making ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 1:59am   
... relate to terrorism not only in afghanistan but throughout the world. the arrest of haji bagcho did not stop other criminal organizations coming in and filling the void. utbeit sent a message no one was safe. if we could get haji bagcho, we ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:27am   
... had given to shaw went to haji bagcho. these are hand written ledgers that can be hidden. so we searched the offices of zahir shaw. we found the ledger and we were able to gather evidence about haji bagcho's transactions. ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:38am   
... we went out and picked him up. we realized this was a man named kari. i met him in haji bagcho's residence in 2006 when we did a search warrant. kari was almost a part of bagcho's family. he often lived in haji bagcho's ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:39am   
... kilos of heroin. he helped introduce an undercover police officer into the organization. the undercover police officer made recordings and direct conversation with haji bagcho. ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 1:15am   
... well known in the area. he had somewhat of a celebrity status, wealth, power and the means to buy off government officials. haji bagcho was bribing ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 1:17am   
... like a human atm system. so fareed knew which one that bagcho worked with. so we sent him to go deliver the money to haji bagcho's money ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:09am   
... taliban. there's untold numbers of people who died because of that heroin and the money being generated was going to people that wanted to destroy the united states. so in 2005 we decided to target haji bagcho. ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:19am   
... we had a quick reaction for us where we had trucks with mounted machine guns. so if the source got into trouble, we could go rescue him. we dropped off fareed and fareed walked to haji bagcho's ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:07am   
... a very unsafe place. an area, a tradition of growing a lot of poppy. there is mountainous clandestine labs there. so a lot of heroin is produced in these areas. there is definitely a handful of large players, but haji bagcho ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 1:58am   
... anything to do with any wrongdoing. and after a three-week trial we had a hung jury. they couldn't come a verdict. so we had to send witnesses back, reconstitute the case, and we re-tried haji bagcho again in ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 1:28am   
... afghan government saying you have to give the books back so that commerce could continue. so we spent a lot of time copying the information and had had to give them back because we were guests of the afghan government. at that point haji bagcho was ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:38am   
... his life, the involvement of the taliban. there could have been a number of motivations for him. we put a blanket over him and brought him back to the office so he could be interviewed. we believe we handle and operate with sources better than any other agency. they were instrumental in getting the ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:29am   
... back because they were guests of the afghan government. at that point haji bagcho was in afghanistan. november 2007 dea fast did another search of haji bagcho's residence and chemist's ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:38am   
... any other agency. they were instrumental in getting the evidence needed against haji bagcho. kari was provided information that he was present when haji bagcho gave large sums of money to the taliban. ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:25am   
... haji bagcho. we wanted evidence to show that $5000 u.s. dollars that had gone to haji bagcho. so we conducted a search warrant at the hualadar's market in downtown jalalabad. it's a massive market. ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:38am   
... house. he tutored his children. and he was intimately involved in haji bagcho's i willlissist activities and he agreed to cooperate against haji bagcho. maybe he was worried about his life, the involvement of the ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:40am   
... the united states. shortly after that the undercover officer was speaking to bagcho and it became evident that haji bagcho learned that qari was an informant for the police. haji bagcho called qari and told ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:27am   
... we found the ledger and we were able to gather evidence about haji bagcho's transactions. he used his name haji bagcho in his ledger? yes. these are illegal documents in afghanistan. so they have to have an accurate ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:34am   
... involving haji bagcho we now he was one of the biggest drug traffickers in afghanistan, but we really didn't know how prolific he was. haji bagcho was the most prolific drug trafficker in the world. he was responsible for ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:50am   
... so while haji bagcho was in the custody of the afghan police, myself and phil kearny went and talked to him. haji bagcho seemed incredulous that he could be prosecuted in afghanistan or even taken to the ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 1:39am   
... against haji bagcho. he was providing information that he was present when haji bagcho gave large sums of money to the taliban. in one meeting he's with the former governor under the ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:29am   
... another searched one of which showed haji bagcho was making vast amounts of money with his international heroin operations. in just those two ledgers we can show that haji bagcho distributed in that one year ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:29am   
... residence. we found more ledgers, showing that haji bagcho was making vast amounts of money with his international heroin operations. in just those two ledgers, we can show that haji bagcho distributed in that one-year period, this is from march of ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 1:25am   
... hopes that we would find a paper trail that led back to haji bagcho. we wanted to get evidence to show that 5 thousand u.s. dollars had gone to haji bagcho. so we condukted a search warrant ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:19am   
... haji bagcho in the united states. so the next step was to prove that haji bagcho actually lived at the residence. so shortly after farid received the kilos, he decided to execute a search warrant. we flew into the area. as we were landing near in the ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:58am   
... relate to terrorism, not only in afghanistan, but throughout the world. the arrest of haji bagcho did not stop other criminal organizations from coming in and filling the void. but it sent a message no one was safe. if we could get haji bagcho, we could get anybody. ...
CNN: Declassified    9/23/2019 2:18am   
... we sent him to haji bagcho's money man. farid gave him 5000 u.s. dollars for the heroin. zaire logged them into his ledgers and farid left. a short time later haji bagcho called farid and told him he received the money and it had come to his residence and puck up the two kilos of heroin. ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:28am   
... money for two kilos of heroin. but it says received money from fareed on this date and given to haji bagcho. so we were able to close the loop. what we didn't realize is that we were going to be causing a very large controversy by taking his books. not only was he working with haji bagcho but a lot ...
CNN: Declassified    9/24/2017 4:17am   
... sample of the united states. haji bagcho told fareed to give the money to someone who ...