The reason the CIA destabilization efforts around the world are so oftentimes tied to organized crime such as drug smuggling and weapons smuggling is because The Broad Masses reject the aims of the CIA, so the CIA must resort to lumpen criminality
The only way for the banker fascist imperialists of Wall Street to get their way is by deception and underhanded methods
Communists must therefore appeal to the moral sensibilities and operate out in the open and be as above reproach as possible
Such was the nature of the Continental army where everyone knew them as The Good Guys and thought of the british crown as the far away Tyranny administering arbitrary and illegitimate authority
What moral authority do the Drug cartels posses? The same as the CIA and DEA