Alfred W. McCoy: The Politics of Heroin – CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade!

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• From Publishers Weekly 
  Nearly 20 years ago, McCoy wrote The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia , which stirred up considerable controversy, alleging that the CIA was intimately involved in the Vietnamese opium trade. In the current volume, a substantially updated and longer work, he argues that .. the situation basically hasn’t changed over the past two decades; however the numbers have gotten bigger. McCoy writes, “Although the drug pandemic of the 1980s had complex causes, the growth in global heroin supply could be traced in large part to two key aspects of U.S. policy: the failure of the DEA’s interdiction efforts and the CIA’s covert operations.” He readily admits that the CIA’s role in the heroin trade was an “inadvertent” by product of “its cold war tactics,” but he ….. convincingly the path by which the agency and its forebears helped Corsican and Sicilian mobsters re establish the heroin trade after WW II and, most recently, “transformed southern Asia from a self-contained opium zone into a major supplier of heroin.” Scrupulously documented, almost numbingly so at times…
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• Above partially embedded book is the first edition which focuses mainly on Southeast Asia. To purchase the latest book click on the image below!

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