Afghan Threat Finance Cell

The Afghan Threat Finance Cell was a multi-agency intelligence organization in Afghanistan.

The United States' Drug Enforcement Administration was the lead agency in the organization.

[4][5] In February 2011, Dexter Filkins, writing in The New Yorker, reported:[3] The Threat Finance Cell also has almost single-handedly demonstrated the degree to which the American-led war in Afghanistan is compromised by connections among the Taliban, drug traffickers, and Afghan officials.

[3] The organization was instrumental in exposing corruption in the Kabul Bank, which came close to collapse in 2010.

[1] Tracking both illicit and legitimate financial transactions led to 27 approved targets to be named on the "Joint Prioritized Effects List".