VLVL 4: the George "Bush vet"

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I heard a great talk on that very thing last week on Unwelcome Guests --the
CIA's involvement in the drug trade.
Check it out: http://www.radio4all.org/unwelcome/archive.html
#162
And just below that, #161, is about the best speech I've ever heard, given
by Bill Moyers on democracy and the early progressive movement.



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From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> [...]From Publishers Weekly
> Nearly 20 years ago, McCoy wrote The Politics of
> Heroin in Southeast Asia , which stirred up
> considerable controversy, alleging that the CIA was
> intimately involved in the Vietnamese opium trade. In
> the current volume, a substantially updated and longer
> work, he argues that pk the situation basically hasn't
> changed over the past two decades; however the numbers
> have gotten bigger. McCoy writes, "Although the drug
> pandemic of the 1980s had complex causes, the growth
> in global heroin supply could be traced in large part
> to two key aspects of U.S. policy: the failure of the
> DEA's interdiction efforts and the CIA's covert
> operations." He readily admits that the CIA's role in
> the heroin trade was an "inadvertent" byproduct of
> "its cold war tactics," but he limns convincingly the
> path by which the agency and its forebears helped
> Corsican and Sicilian mobsters reestablish the heroin
> trade after WW II and, most recently, "transformed
> southern Asia from a self-contained opium zone into a
> major supplier of heroin." Scrupulously documented,
> almost numbingly so at times, this is a valuable
> corrective to the misinformation being peddled by
> anti-drug zealots on both sides of the aisle. First
> serial to the Progressive.
> Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.[...]
>
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/155652126X/ref=pd_sim_books_1
/104-1810149-3767141?v=glance&s=books>
>
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