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- Subject: 3RD WORLD RESOURCES (V8 N3) BOOKS: CIA/HEROIN COMPLICITY
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- Topic 123 BOOKS, 8:3 - 1992 Response 12 of 16
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- The following is from the quarterly magazine, THIRD WORLD
- RESOURCES: A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF RESOURCES FROM AND ABOUT THE THIRD
- WORLD; subscriptions to the 24-page hardcopy edition are $35/year
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- North America, write to: Third World Resources, 464 19th Street,
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- PeaceNet, or email to tfenton@igc.org (Tom Fenton)
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- ***<THE POLITICS OF HEROIN: CIA COMPLICITY IN THE GLOBAL
- DRUG TRADE.> Alfred W. McCoy. Lawrence Hill Books, 230 Park
- Pl., Rm. 6A, Brooklyn, NY 11238. 1991. Rev. ed. xx + 634 pp.
- $19.95. ISBN 1- 55652-125-1. Distributor: Independent
- Publishers Group, 814 N. Franklin, Chicago, IL 60610. Notes,
- bibliography, index, maps, photographs.
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- In 1973 Alfred McCoy produced a blockbuster expose of the
- heroin trade in Southeast Asia: <The Politics of Heroin in
- Southeast Asia.> This completely revised and expanded
- edition of his 1973 classic is--McCoy explains--more
- <explanation> than <expose.> More than a decade and a half
- of perspective and countless hours of research between 1973
- and the end of 1990 enabled McCoy to double the size of the
- 1973 edition and to more confidently and accurately place
- the Southeast Asian trade in the global context of the trade
- in narcotics. In the process McCoy provides explanatory
- historical coverage of the past twenty years of worldwide
- drug trafficking and places the current drug war in
- historical perspective.
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- Opening with a 23-page introduction to the history of
- heroin, McCoy moves on to describe in detail and with
- journalistic flair how the United States began to involve
- itself in the promotion of international drug dealing. From
- Marseille (France) to the Golden Triangle in Southeast
- Asia--McCoy charges--the U.S. government has pursued a
- course that one Chinese Nationalist army general described
- unabashedly in this way: "We have to continue to fight the
- evil of Communism, and to fight you must have an army, and
- an army much have guns, and to buy guns you must have money.
- In these mountains, the only money is opium."
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