Upon its initial 1972 release, the CIA attempted to suppress the book's publication by pressuring the publisher, Harper & Row, to allow the Agency to review and "correct" the manuscript. The publisher eventually proceeded after McCoy refused to make significant changes.
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 ...
Using CIA-owned airlines like Air America to transport opium from remote mountainous regions to refineries. Upon its initial 1972 release, the CIA attempted