"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" - Captain Renault

Rigorous Intuition: Sex, Drugs and Three-Card Monte:

"Former DEA special agent Michael Levine likens the 'War on Drugs' to the con game three-card monte: the grifter lays down three cards on a table, shows you that one is the Queen of Spades, then turns them over and quickly shuffles. He asks if you can pick the Queen, and you saw some guy before you win easily, so you reach for your wallet. Guess what? You lose. And you know that guy who won? He's part of the scam.

In the early seventies Levine was assigned to the Hard Narcotics Smuggling Squad, which investigated all heroin and cocaine smuggling through the port of New York City. In Kristina Borjesson's Into the Buzzsaw he writes that 'we could not avoid witnessing the CIA protecting major drug dealers'"