In 2011, the New York Post reported a theory that the CIA "feared [that the cartel] los Zetas… was becoming too powerful" so it sent 2,000 guns and $1.25 million to the Sinaloa cartel "to keep the Zetas in check." If these allegations are true, the CIA looks to be benefitting from the perpetual drug war by 1) giving itself a job and 2) funding its covert operations through drug money earned from its partner cartels.