The politics of heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Columbia

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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, Europe, the Middle East, and South and Central America. New chapters detail U.S. involvement in the narcotics trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan before and aft…

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Title Statements

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

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2003.
Edition:2nd rev. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Lawrence Hill Books
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2003.

The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 710 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1556524838, 9781556524837
oclc:ocn778700205
LC Classification:HV5822.H4
Dewey Decimal:363.4/5/0959

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.

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Drogues -- Trafic -- 20e siècle Drogues -- Trafic -- 20e siècle. -- Asi… Drug traffic Drug traffic -- History -- 20th century Drug traffic -- History -- 20th century… Heroin industry Héroïne -- Industrie History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology Southeast Asia United States., Central Intelligence Ag…