Hezbollah is a Lebanese terrorist organisation and the political party responsible for deadly attacks all over the world. This is the story of how they became major players not just in the Middle East hash trade, but in the global cocaine and amphetamine business – trafficking tons of drugs across the world, and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for South American cartels. Even murkier is how a major DEA investigation into these activities was allegedly undermined by the CIA and the White House – leading agents from different agencies to all end up accusing each other of endangering national security. 00:00 Intro 01:35 Beqaa Valley Weed 04:48 Trafficking Captagon 06:41 “This Was Some of the Biggest Drug Trafficking We’ve Ever Seen in the World” 08:23 Operation Cassandra 09:34 The Iran Nuclear Deal Watch more from this series: The Opioid Crisis Sweeping Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4MZEkFu8PE Why Mexican Cartels Use American Guns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=388wlVWxGz0 The Female Cartel Bosses of Latin America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-g2_gBkGo Check out the VICE World News playlist for global reporting you won't find elsewhere:    • World News   Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE About VICE: The Definitive Guide To Enlightening Information. From every corner of the planet, our immersive, caustic, ground-breaking and often bizarre stories have changed the way people think about culture, crime, art, parties, fashion, protest, the internet and other subjects that don't even have names yet. Browse the growing library and discover corners of the world you never knew existed. Welcome to VICE. Connect with VICE: Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com/ More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo Click here to get the best of VICE daily: http://bit.ly/1SquZ6v Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vice Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vice?lang=en The VICE YouTube Network: VICE: null MUNCHIES: null VICE News: null VICELAND: null Vice Life: null Noisey: null Motherboard: null VICE Sports: null i-D: null Waypoint: null