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Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) During the Korean War, the first allegations of CIA drug trafficking surfaced after 1949, stemming from a deal whereby arms were supplied to Chiang Kai-shek 's defeated generals in exchange for intelligence. [15] Later in the same region, while the CIA was sponsoring a "Secret War" in Laos from 1961 to 1975, it ...
May 28, 2021 · How CIA-backed Rebels Helped Fuel Southeast Asia’s Billion-Dollar Drug Trade. A look at the hidden history of the “lost regiment” of defeated Kuomintang troops in Myanmar and Thailand. OS ...
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia online. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a 1972 non-fiction book on heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia and the CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade. Written by Alfred W. McCoy, the book covers the period from World War II to the Vietnam War .
- Alfred W. McCoy, Cathleen B. Read, Leonard Palmer Adams
- 1972
Now, in his book The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, McCoy has set it down. To show how it devel- oped, he had to backtrack. The use of opiates in the United States has a long history. It wasn't until after World War I that widespread oppro- brium, added to growing understand- ing of the dangers, turned the trade into an underworld monopoly.
Jan 1, 1972 · 4.36. 639 ratings60 reviews. The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of ...
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The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia ...
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