It's likely that you were already familiar with the fact that the CIA worked directly with drug traffickers in the Contras in the 80's and 90's. It's possible that you were aware that the CIA has not stopped smuggling cocaine into America.
Less well known is how the CIA assisted opium producers and traffickers during our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan.
What's new is that the CIA is losing it's government monopoly on smuggling illegal drugs into the United States.

US Attorney Damian Williams from New York published evidence that confirms that DEA agents allegedly conspired to traffic cocaine from Colombia in 2017.

In a letter to New York judge Valerie Caproni, Williams alleged that a Colombian citizen without a criminal record, Armando Gomez, “attempted to import tons of cocaine into the United States” in 2017.

The same letter contained evidence suggesting that Williams’ own assistant, Jason Richman, helped fabricate these charges in a botched conspiracy to extradite former guerrilla leader “Jesus Santrich” in 2018.

In fact, the evidence suggests that the DEA coordinated the export of cocaine it allegedly received from Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office in a “controlled delivery.”
...DEA agent Brian Witek testified under oath that he coordinated the conspiracy to traffic the drugs to support the fabricated charges against Santrich “following the instructions” of “American law enforcement authorities.”

Move over CIA. The DEA knows a thing or two about smuggling drugs.

Santrich was assassinated by a member of Colombia’s military official in Venezuela in May 2021, effectively ending the New York investigation into the fabricated charges against the former guerrilla chief.

In December last year, Williams provided judge Valerie Caproni images of Gomez allegedly delivering five kilograms of cocaine to an DEA informants on November 1, 2017.
...The New York prosecution documents suggest that the DEA subsequently exported five kilos of the cocaine to the United States on December 7, 2017. What happened to the remaining five kilograms is a mystery...

The New York prosecutor stressed that the trial “continues to receive significant press coverage in Colombia,” mainly because of the involvement of the DEA and the assistant US attorney in conspiracies to traffic drugs and subsequent efforts to undermine the peace process in the South American country.

Ah yes. We've got to undermine any peace process in Latin America. However, isn't that the CIA's job?

Senator Ivan Cepeda and former Senator Antonio Sanguino announced criminal charges against Witek and other DEA traffickers on fraud and illegal wiretapping charges in 2019 already.

Fortunately for the DEA, the United States can determine laws in other nations, while simply ignoring the laws of other nations.