num_pages: 480
description: s/t: An Undercover OdysseyIn The Big White Lie, Levine, former DEA agent &amp; bestselling author of Deep Cover, leads readers thru a decade of undercover work. His prose is fast-moving, readable &amp; hard-hitting. He tells how the beautiful S. American “Queen of Cocaine” seduced the CIA into protecting her from prosecution as she sold drugs to Americans; how CIA-sponsored paramilitary ousted, tortured &amp; killed members of a pro-DEA Bolivian ruling party; &amp; how the CIA created La Corporacion, the “General Motors of cocaine,” which led directly to the current cocaine/crack epidemic. As a 25-year veteran agent for the DEA, Michael Levine worked deep-cover cases from Bangkok to Buenos Aires &amp; witnessed 1sthand scandalous violations of drug laws by U.S. officials.Author's NoteIntroductionPrologue1 The Cocaine Coup2 Operation Hun3 Sonia's SecretEpilogueIndex
language: English
title: The Big White Lie: The CIA & the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic
titlecomplete: The Big White Lie: The CIA & the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic
genres: True Crime, History, Politics, Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 115
publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press (NYC)