Cocaine Politics¶

Metadata¶

• Author: Jonathan Marshall
• ASIN: B071FQ41NV
• ISBN: 0520214498
• Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071FQ41NV
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Highlights¶

CIA involvement in Southeast Asia contributed to the U.S. heroin epidemic of the late 1960s, just as CIA involvement in Central America contributed to the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Although the CIA did not actually peddle drugs, it did form gray alliances with right-wing gangs deemed helpful against a common en-emy.^^ — location: 73 ^ref-61996

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