The politics of heroin
Subtitle: CIA complicity in the global drug trade : Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia
By: Alfred W. McCoy.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books; Distributed by Independent Publishers Group
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 710
Subjects: United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency; Heroin industry; Drug traffic -- History -- 20th century; Drug traffic -- Asia, Southeastern -- History -- 20th century
Notes: "The second revised edition of The politics of heroin in Southeast Asia"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 649-680) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A history of heroin ... Sicily : home of the Mafia; title: Marseille : America's heroin laboratory; title: Opium for the natives; title: Cold War opium boom; title: South Vietnam's heroin traffic; title: Hong Kong : Asia's heroin laboratory; title: The Golden Triangle; title: War on drugs; title: The CIA's covert wars.