num_pages: 464
description: Glossary Acknowledgements Intro-Consequences of Complicity Heroin-History of a Miracle Drug Logistics of Heroin 1/Sicily-Home of the Mafia Addiction in America Mafia in America Mafia Restored-Fighters for DemocracyLuciano Organizes Postwar Heroin Trade Marseille Connection Mapa de la Conquista de Sicilia '43 2/Marseille-America's Heroin Lab Genesis From Underworld to Underground Political Bedfellows-SP, Guerinis &amp; CIA Guerini-Francisci Vendetta After the FallDecline of European Heroin Trade &amp; Journey to the East3/Colonial Legacy-Opium for the Natives Royal Thai Opium Monopoly Burma Sahibs in Shan states Fr.Indochina-Friendly Neighborhood Opium DenOpium Crisis of 1939-45 Meo of Laos-Politics of the Poppy Opium in Tai Country-Denouement at Dien Bien PhuInto the Postwar Era 4/Cold War Opium BoomFr.Indochina-Opium Espionage/OperationX Binh XuyenOrder &amp; Opium in Saigon Secret War in Burma-The KMT Thailand's Opium-Fruits of Victory Appendix/Is Communist China Center of Intern'l Narcotics Traffic? No 5/S.Vietnam-Narcotics in Nation's ServicePolitics of Heroin in S.Vietnam Tradition &amp; Corruption in SE Asia Diem's Dynasty &amp; Nhu Bandits New Opium Monopoly Thieu-Ky Rivalry GI Heroin Epidemic S.Vietnam-Heroin Achieves Full Market PotentialOpium Airlift Command Thieu Takes CommandVietnamese Navy-Up the Creek Vietnamese Army-Marketing Product Lower House Heroin Junkets Khiem Apparatus-All in the Family Tempest in a Teapot-Thieu-Khiem SquabbleMafia Comes to AsiaConsequences of Complicity-Generation of Junkies6/Hong Kong-Heir to Heroin Traffic 7/Golden Triangle-Heroin is Our Most Important ProductLaos-Land of the Poppy Corsican Aviation Pioneers Air Opium '55-65Gen.Phoumi Nosavan-Feudalism Still w/USSecret War Secret Strategy in Laos Long Pot-Rendezvous w/Air AmericaGen.Ouane Rattikone-Vientiane ConnexionCIA in NW Laos-Prelude to '67 Opium War Gen.U Ba Thein-Reaping the Whirlwind KMT in Thailand-Guardian at N. GateBattle at Ban Khwan-Challenge of Chan Shee-FuSurvival of the FittestShan Rebellion-Road to Chaos Gen.Ouane Rattikone-Winner Takes SomethingConclusion8/What Can Be Done? Cure the Individual Addict Destroy Narcotics Syndicates Eliminate Illicit Opium Production '72-Year of Decision AppendixChina-Historical Setting of Asia's Profitable PlagueChina Grows Her Own Tarnished Crusades Notes
language: English
title: The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
titlecomplete: The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
genres: American, War, Asia, Politics, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Conspiracy Theories, Crime, History, True Crime
ratings_count: 597
publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers (NYC)