McCoy,A. The Politics of Heroin in S.E. Asia. 1973
McCoy, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. New York:
Harper Colophon Books, 1973. 472 pages.
When Noriega was delivering Medellin cartel competitors to the DEA,
he may not have known that he was the latest in a long line of officials
performing such a function. Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the
University of Wisconsin, recounts how Hong Kong law enforcement similarly
protected their favored heroin dealers in the 1970s, as did the new York
branch of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the 1960s.
The symbiotic relationship between drug merchants, and intelligence
and law enforcement, is examined in detail by McCoy. From Southeast Asia,
to Central America, to Afghanistan, the trail of CIA covert action and
drug smuggling runs parallel. McCoy also examines the banks that preceded
BCCI as havens for tax evaders and criminals protected from prosecution
because they banked with covert operators, and pinpoints critical historical
periods when the narcotics trade might have been stopped had it not been
for U.S. intelligence agencies.
There are two versions of this book, the classic first edition (1973),
and an expanded second edition (1991) that includes Afghanistan.
-- Lanny Sinkin
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