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There have been various allegations and claims that the Soviet KGB and its successor agencies were involved in, or leveraged, drug trafficking operations, primarily to gain hard currency for state operations or to destabilize Western nations. 
Key claims and evidence include:

• State-Sanctioned Operations: Some reports suggest the KGB and Cuban intelligence worked with Colombian drug traffickers, with the Soviets and Cuba receiving a return on their “investments”.
• Destabilization Efforts: According to some sources, the KGB formed “shadowy alliances” with drug smuggling rings, channeling drugs through intermediaries like Bulgaria and Cuba, as part of a strategy to weaken Western nations. A defector from the Bulgarian State Security alleged a plan to use a state enterprise, KINTEX, to exchange drugs for arms.
• Post-Soviet Transition and Corruption: During and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there are claims that former KGB officials and the emerging Russian mafia used drug trafficking and money laundering to fund new private businesses and maintain influence. One former KGB officer, Yuri Shvets, testified that an ally of Vladimir Putin, Viktor Ivanov (who later became Russia’s anti-narcotics chief), was involved in a drug smuggling and money laundering ring with the Tambov criminal group in the 1990s.
• Funding Intelligence: A 1994 US Congressional record notes the possibility that the struggling Russian economy might rely on narcotics trafficking to fund intelligence bills, as the Soviet Union had used hard currency from the drug trade for some KGB operations in the past.
• Organized Crime Links: Russian organized crime groups, some of which have ties to current and former intelligence officers, have been involved in drug trafficking, including receiving cocaine from the “Cali KGB Cartel” in Colombia. 

These claims are often based on intelligence reports, defector testimonies, and journalistic investigations. The extent of direct, high-level, state-sanctioned KGB involvement versus opportunistic corruption by individual officers, particularly during the chaotic 1990s transition, remains a subject of debate. Current Russian agencies cooperate with international counterparts, including the U.S. DEA, to combat drug trafficking, though allegations of high-level corruption persist.