The politics of heroin : CIA complicity in the global drug trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia / Alfred W. McCoy

Author: McCoy, Alfred W.
Published: Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2003]
Copyright Date: ©2003
Edition: Rev. ed., 2nd rev. ed.
Physical Description: xxvi, 710 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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Contents

Sicily : home of the Mafia -- Marseille : America's heroin laboratory -- Opium for the natives -- Cold War opium boom -- South Vietnam's heroin traffic -- Hong Kong : Asia's heroin laboratory -- The Golden Triangle -- War on drugs -- The CIA's covert wars.

Subject(s)

United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Heroin industry
Drug traffic—History—20th century
Drug traffic—Southeast Asia—History—20th century

ISBN

1556524838

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-680) and index.

Source of Acquisition

UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the William L. and Josephine Berry Weiss Special Initiative Fund; 20023.

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The politics of heroin : CIA complicity in the global drug trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia / Alfred W. McCoy

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