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.
── "We have to continue to fight the evil of Communism, and to fight you must have an army, and an army must have guns, and to buy guns you must have money. In these mountains the only money is opium." General Tuan Shi-wen, commander of the Kuomintang Fifth Army (based in the Golden Triangle), as quoted by McCoy.
── en.wikipedia.org, The politics of heroin in southeast asia
── https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_Southeast_Asia
── The politics of heroin in southeast asia, 1972
── authors (Alfred W. McCoy, Cathleen B. Read, Leonard P. Adams II),
── subject: heroin trafficking, cover operations, central intelligence agency (CIA)
── To attain its operational goals, McCoy notes, the CIA tolerated and concealed the drug dealing by its local assets.
── "it is difficult to state unequivocally that the individual drug lords allied with the CIA did or did not shape the long-term trajectory of supply and demand within the vastness and complexity of the global drug traffic" (p. 529).
── Simply put, they [the CIA and the national security apparatus] prioritize their national security goals over the drug war and the profits from illegal drugs help our military allies wage war.
── the U.S. government is not the only country to be involved this type of illegal activity.
── Although charges that the agency engaged in the crack cocaine epidemic that devastated African American inner cities in the US during the 1980s and 1990s are not true(strictly speaking)- the worst that the CIA can be held responsible for is turning a blind eye to drug trafficking by their Contra allies,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_Southeast_Asia
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