Operation X: The CIA’s deadly drug trade is exposed

Another excellent, concise and authoritative summary program in the Proven conspiracies series.

What if the most powerful intelligence agency in the world was secretly funded with drug money? *Operation From the French connection to the Iran-Contra affair, the web of drugs, politics and covert operations has left a trail of violence and corruption across Latin America and Southeast Asia. Discover the untold stories of CIA-backed drug trafficking and the tragic figures like Enrique “Kiki” Camarena and Barry Seal who paid the ultimate price for exposing the truth.

American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan – Book by Peter Dale Scott

This provocative, deeply researched book examines the covert aspects of American foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals compelling evidence to expose the extensive growth of sanctioned but illegal violence in politics and state affairs, especially as it relates to America’s long-standing involvement in the global drug trade. Beginning in Thailand in the 1950s, Americans have become accustomed to the CIA’s alliances with drug traffickers (and their bankers) to install and maintain right-wing governments. The pattern has been repeated in Laos, Vietnam, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan and now Afghanistan, to name just the countries covered in this book come. Scott shows that the relationship of American intelligence agencies and services with the global drug trade and with other international criminal networks deserves more attention in the debate about the American presence in Afghanistan. To date, the U.S. government and policies have done more to promote drug trafficking than to restrict it. The so-called war on terror, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, is only the latest chapter in this disturbing story.

Drugs, Oil and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Columbia and Indochina – Book by Peter Dale Scott

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia – Book by Alfred W. McCoy.

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia is a nonfiction book about the heroin trade in Southeast Asia, covering the period from World War II to the Vietnam War. Published in 1972, the book was the result of eighteen months of research and at least one trip to Laos by its lead author, Alfred W. McCoy. McCoy wrote Politics of Heroin while seeking a PhD in Southeast Asian history from Yale University. Cathleen B. Read (a graduate student who spent time in the region during the war) and Leonard P. Adams II are also listed as co-authors. Arguably the most striking feature of Politics of Heroin was its documentation of the CIA’s complicity and assistance in the opium and heroin trade in Southeast Asia. The CIA actively sought to suppress this book, and the rigorous research McCoy undertook to compile and compile its explosive contents. With this book, McCoy became the foremost authoritative expert in this field of scientific research.

McCoy later updated and expanded his research, and published it The politics of heroin: CIA complicity in the global drug trade. The first book to expose the complicity of the CIA and the US government in the global drug trade, The Politics of Heroin provides meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels, from the Cold War to today. From a global perspective, this groundbreaking study describes the mechanisms of drug trafficking in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South and Central America. New chapters describe U.S. involvement in the drug trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan before and after the fall of the Taliban, and how U.S. drug policies in Central America and Colombia increased the global supply of illicit drugs.

(Several years ago I had the opportunity to discuss his scientific efforts with Dr. McCoy.)

Together with McCoy’s testimony in Congress, this initially controversial statement gained some mainstream acceptance. The thesis of the book was that most of the world’s heroin was produced in the Golden Triangle. It is transported in the aircraft, vehicles and other transportation equipment provided by the United States. The profits from the trade have ended up in the pockets of some of our best friends in Southeast Asia. The complaint ends by stating that the traffic continues with the indifference, if not the indulgence, of some U.S. officials, and that it is not likely to be stopped in the near future.

In particular, Air America, which was secretly owned and operated by the CIA, was used to transport the illegal drugs. At the same time, the heroin supply was partly responsible for the perilous state of US Army morale in Vietnam. “In mid-1971, Army medical officers estimated that about 10 to 15 percent of the enlisted men serving in Vietnam were heroin users.” After interviewing Maurice Belleux, former head of the French intelligence agency SDECE, McCoy also uncovered parts of the French Connection plan used by the agency to finance all its covert operations during the First Indochina War through control of the drug trade in Indochina.

The CIA responded strongly to the book: “…senior CIA officials signed pre-publication letters to a newspaper and a magazine, and authorized a rare on-the-record interview at CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. ” (the letters were addressed to the Washington Star and signed by William E. Colby and Paul C. Velte Jr.; the letter to Harper & Row (the book’s publishers) on July 5 by CIA General Counsel Lawrence R. Houston, asked if they would be given the galley evidence so they can criticize errors and refute unproven allegations “We believe we can demonstrate to you that a significant number of Mr. McCoy’s claims about the alleged involvement of this agency are completely false and unsubstantiated, some have been distorted beyond recognition and none are based on convincing evidence.”) and take whatever legal action they deem necessary before the book’s publication.

McCoy eventually overcame his initial reluctance to provide a copy to the CIA, which then sent the promised list of criticisms and corrections. Harper & Row felt that the material the CIA offered was extremely weak, but that the book was reasonably well sourced. (McCoy conducted “more than 250 interviews, some with former and current CIA officials. He said top South Vietnamese officials, including President Nguyen Van Thieu and Prime Minister Tran Van Khiem, were specifically involved.”; a vice president and general counsel of Harper & Row said, “We have no doubts at all about the book. We have had it reviewed by others and we are confident that the work is amply documented and scholarly.”) and not just published. it, but published it two weeks before the planned release date.

CIA Covert Actions & Drug Trafficking – article by Alfred W. McCoy

How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Only Superpower: America’s Opium War in Afghanistan – article by Alfred W. McCoy

Opium and the Politics of Gangsterism in Nationalist China, 1927-1945 – article by Jonathan Marshall

Cooking the Books: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the China Lobby and Cold War Propaganda, 1950-1962 – article by Jonathan Marshall

The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascismby Henrik Kruger

Danish investigative author Henrik Krüger set out to write a book about Christian David, a French criminal with a colorful past, and ended up writing a book – originally published in 1980 – that covers every continent and names names up to Richard Nixon. The Nixon administration and the CIA wanted to eliminate the old French Connection and replace it with heroin from the Golden Triangle, in part to help finance operations in Southeast Asia. The book delves into the relationships between French and American intelligence services and organized crime investigating the underworld of narcotics, espionage and international terrorism. It exposes the alliances between the mafia, right-wing extremists, neo-fascist OAS and SAC veterans in France and Miami-based Cuban exiles. It lifts the veil on the global networks of parafascist terrorists who so often plot and murder with impunity, thanks to their connections and services to the intelligence services of the so-called ‘free world’. In short, this updated edition tells a story that our own media has systematically failed to tell.

The Power of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs by Douglas Valentine

The power of the wolf presents for the first time a definitive history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) from its founding in 1930 to its dramatic termination in 1968. The carefully and extensively documented book is based largely on interviews with former FBN agents, and in this The Strength of the Wolf represents a new chapter in American history, introducing a cast of fantastic characters.

Douglas Valentine tells how the FBN’s top operatives penetrated the secretive world of international drug trafficking and, by exposing the establishment’s ties to organized crime, brought about their own downfall. As the book reveals in startling detail, the CIA and FBI often protected the FBN’s main targets in the mafia and the French-Corsican underworld. The CIA and its nationalist Chinese allies turned out to be the largest drug trafficking syndicate in the world, but for political and national security reasons the FBN was prevented from investigating this overarching conspiracy.

12:44 PM on October 10, 2024

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