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The politics of heroin : CIA complicity in the global drug trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia / Alfred W. McCoy.
Van Pelt Library HV5822.H4 M33 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCoy, Alfred W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroin industry.
- Drug traffic--History--20th century.
- Drug traffic.
- Drug traffic--Southeast Asia--History--20th century.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- United States.
- History.
- Southeast Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 709 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, [2003]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-680) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1556524838
- OCLC:
- 50982369
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