315: Christian Anglin and Craig McLaughlin - Operation Crown Prince, Fried Chicken, Heroin, and Warlords
FBI Retired Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Retired agents Christian Anglin and Craig McLaughlin review Operation Crown Prince, an investigation into Afghan nationals residing in the U.S. transporting heroin into the country and providing proceeds to the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and insurgents as a means of material support for their operations combating U.S. and allied forces. The case was nicknamed “The Great Chicken Caper” as it originated with intelligence that proceeds were laundered through Afghan owned fried chicken businesses along the east. Christian Anglin served in the FBI for over 24 years. Craig McLaughlin served in the FBI for 23 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 315 of FBI Retired Case Far Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the |
| 0:15.3 | FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case |
| 0:20.9 | reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to retired |
| 0:25.7 | agents, Chris Anglin who served in the FBI for over 24 years, and Craig McLaughlin |
| 0:32.2 | who served in the FBI for 23 years. |
| 0:35.0 | In this episode they review Operation Crown Prince |
| 0:40.0 | an investigation into Afghan nationals residing in the US, |
| 0:44.8 | transporting heroin into the country, and providing proceeds to the Taliban, al-Qaeda, |
| 0:50.6 | and insurgents as a means of material support for their operations combating U.S. and |
| 0:56.6 | Allied forces. |
| 0:58.2 | The case was nicknamed the Great Chicken Caper as it originated with intelligence that proceeds were laundered through |
| 1:06.0 | Afghan-owned fried chicken businesses along the East Coast. |
| 1:10.5 | At the time, FBI officials characterized the investigation as one of the most important |
| 1:16.4 | being run out of the New York office and represented the friction between those fighting |
| 1:22.2 | the war on terrorism and those fighting the war on drugs. |
| 1:26.0 | The case resulted in several large kilogram seizures of heroin originating from Afghanistan, |
| 1:32.1 | dozens of arrests, multiple disruptions and |
| 1:35.1 | dismantlements, and ultimately the conviction of the world's largest |
| 1:40.0 | opium producer Bazir Norizai, a prominent Afghan tribal leader. |
| 1:45.6 | In September 2022, authorities released Norizai, who had been sentenced to life in prison, |
| 1:52.2 | in exchange for U.S. contractor Mark Ferrick, who was being |
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