Probably, because what else are you going to do with all this cocaine money?

But also the CIA ( and also businessmen like Rockefeller) just thought it was good business.

“For two decades after World War II, Iowa prospered on donations from conservative businessmen persuaded by Engle that the program fortified democratic values at home and abroad: It fought Communism. The workshop thrived on checks from places like the Rockefeller Foundation, which gave Iowa $40,000 between 1953 and 1956—good money at the time.”