CIA's Tricks Are for Kids

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The Central Intelligence Agency has its own website for kids, complete with animal cartoon mascots that present an "antidrug message to America's youth." Spinning U.S. spy operations as an effort to keep kids straight seems hypocritical to Martin A. Lee, who has written previously about the CIA's history of experiments with drug-based mind-control and its collaborations with heroin and cocaine dealers in Southeast Asia and Latin America.