The Strength of the Wolf

[Dave Monroe]

Valentine, Douglas.  The Strength of the Wolf:
   The Secret History of America's War on Drugs.
   London and New York: Verso, 2004.

The Strength of the Wolf presents for the first time a
definitive history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
(FBN) from its birth in 1930 until its wrenching
termination in 1968. Carefully and extensively
documented, the book is based largely on interviews
with former FBN agents, and in this respect The
Strength of the Wolf represents a new chapter in
American history, one that introduces a cast of
fabulous characters.

Douglas Valentine tells how the FBN’s premier
case-making agents penetrated the arcane world of
international drug trafficking and, by uncovering the
Establishment’s ties to organized crime, brought about
their own demise. As the book reveals in startling
detail, the CIA and FBI were often protecting the
FBN’s major targets in the Mafia and the French
Corsican underworld. The CIA and its Nationalist
Chinese allies were found 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.

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