The Politics Of Heroin : Cia Complicity In The ... May 2026

The work also connects U.S. policy in Colombia and the Contra war in Nicaragua to the growth of regional cocaine and heroin markets. Controversy and Legacy

In post-WWII Europe, the CIA collaborated with the Corsican Mafia to break the power of communist-led unions on the docks of Marseille, inadvertently allowing the syndicate to establish the "French Connection" heroin pipeline to New York. The politics of heroin : CIA complicity in the ...

The book traces this pattern across multiple decades and regions, showing how U.S. intervention consistently correlated with surges in drug production: The work also connects U

Updated editions of the book detail how the CIA-backed Mujahideen in the 1980s transformed Afghanistan into the world's leading opium producer. McCoy asserts that while the U.S. provided arms to fight the Soviets, it ignored the massive heroin trade that sustained these guerrilla forces. The book traces this pattern across multiple decades