Plan suggested to President Reagan in 1981 by Count Alexandre De Marenches, French intelligence chief, to subvert Soviet troops in Afghanistan with disinformation and drugs that had been seized from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. The drugs would be sold to the troops by Pakistanis and Afghans in French employ. As Marenches told it, Reagan endorsed the idea, but it was abandoned when William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence, could not guarantee that the covert action would remain covert.