The Politics Of Heroin : Cia Complicity In The ... «FULL — 2027»

Upon its initial 1972 release, the CIA attempted to suppress the book's publication by pressuring the publisher, Harper & Row, to allow the Agency to review and "correct" the manuscript. The publisher eventually proceeded after McCoy refused to make significant changes.

Updated editions of the book detail how the CIA-backed Mujahideen in the 1980s transformed Afghanistan into the world's leading opium producer. McCoy asserts that while the U.S. provided arms to fight the Soviets, it ignored the massive heroin trade that sustained these guerrilla forces. The politics of heroin : CIA complicity in the ...

During the Vietnam War, the CIA supported Hmong tribesmen in Laos and South Vietnamese officials who were heavily involved in the opium trade. This led to a heroin epidemic among U.S. soldiers serving in Vietnam, with estimates suggesting up to 15% were users by 1971. Upon its initial 1972 release, the CIA attempted