The New York Times is reporting one of Afghanistan’s most powerful drug lords in recent years was also a longtime paid informer for the CIA and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Times details how in 2006, at the height of his power as a drug lord, the Bush administration secretly flew Hajji Juma Khan to Washington for a series of clandestine meetings with CIA and DEA officials. The meeting took place even though the United States was receiving reports that he was on his way to becoming Afghanistan’s most important narcotics trafficker and was paying off Taliban leaders and corrupt politicians in President Hamid Karzai’s government. Juma Khan was eventually arrested in 2008, but the United States never disclosed his role as an informer.