The work also connects U.S. policy in Colombia and the Contra war in Nicaragua to the growth of regional cocaine and heroin markets. Controversy and Legacy
Covert funds were sometimes funneled to paramilitary groups deeply embedded in opium production. Key Geographical Focus Areas The politics of heroin : CIA complicity in the ...
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 work also connects U
In post-WWII Europe, the CIA collaborated with the Corsican Mafia to break the power of communist-led unions on the docks of Marseille, inadvertently allowing the syndicate to establish the "French Connection" heroin pipeline to New York. Key Geographical Focus Areas Updated editions of the
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.