The implication was that they sold drugs to poor communities in America to keep poor communities in America surpressed
They did that too.
CIA activities in opposition to anything everything left of Pinochet
Fixed it for you.
are a directed attack on the poor is both shifting it to where I don't think the statement was intended, and also reducing the complexity of their objective.
On the contrary. I'm saying that attacking the poor was one of many goals of a multifaceted strategy, not the only one.
They didn't give a shit about poor people.
That's not quite true. They had no love for them, but they were not stupid enough not to fear them.
They cared about supporting the power structures that employed them.
And to do so is to actively suppress dissent from and agency of the poor
Hurting poor people was just an expedient means an absolutely crucial factor towards that end.
Fixin'
Yes, the power structures they supported were largely aligned with financial means because obviously they were, this is America.
Yet you refuse to acknowledge that this necessarily means that they were opposed to poor people, or you're just denying their awareness of it.
Citation needed on the CIA directly buying and selling drugs.