The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
A history of the CIA's complicity in the Southeast Asian opium and heroin trade from the end of World War II through the Vietnam War. It meticulously documents how Cold War alliances with local warlords and anti-communist forces facilitated the expansion of the global drug trade.
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