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    mccoy.jpg (8470 bytes) The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
    Alfred W. McCoy with Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P.Adams II
    Contents Glossary
       

    		 Acknowledgements
    Introduction: The Consequences of Complicity
    Heroin: The History of a "Miracle Drug"

    		 The Logistics of Heroin
       
    1. Sicily: Home of the Mafia
    Addiction in America: The Root of the Problem
    The Mafia in America
    The Mafia Restored Fighters for Democracy in World War II
    Luciano Organizes the Postwar Heroin Trade
    The Marseille Connection
    Mapa de la Conquista de Sicilia (1943)
       
    2. Marseille: America's Heroin Laboratory
    Genesis
    From Underworld to Underground
    Political Bedfellows The Socialist Party, the Guerinis, and the CIA
    The Guerini-Francisci Vendetta
    After the Fall
    The Decline of the European Heroin Trade, and a Journey to the East
       
    3. The Colonial Legacy: Opium for the Natives
    The Royal Thai Opium Monopoly
    Burma Sahibs in the Shan states
    French Indochina The Friendly Neighborhood Opium Den
    The Opium Crisis of 1939-1945
    The Meo of Laos Politics of the Poppy
    Opium in the Tai Country Denouement at Dien Bien Phu
    Into the Postwar Era
       
    4. Cold War Opium Boom
    French Indochina Opium Espionage and "Operation X"
    The Binh Xuyen
    Order and Opium in Saigon
    Secret War in Burma The KMT
    Thailand's Opium The Fruits of Victory
    Appendix Isn't it true that Communist China is the center of the international narcotics traffic? No
    5. South Vietnam: Narcotics in the Nation's Service
    The Politics of Heroin in South Vietnam
    Tradition and Corruption in Southeast Asia
    Diem's Dynasty and the Nhu Bandits
    The New Opium Monopoly
    The Thieu-Ky Rivalry
    The GI Heroin Epidemic
    South Vietnam Heroin Achieves Full Market Potential
    The Opium Airlift Command
    Thieu Takes Command
    The Vietnamese Navy Up the Creek
    The Vietnamese Army Marketing the Product
    The Lower House Heroin Junkets
    The Khiem Apparatus All in the Family
    Tempest in a Teapot The Thieu-Khiem Squabble
    The Mafia Comes to Asia
    The Consequences of Complicity A Generation of Junkies
    6. Hong Kong: Heir to the Heroin Traffic
       
    7. The Golden Triangle Heroin Is Our Most Important Product
    Laos Land of the Poppy
    Corsican Aviation Pioneers "Air Opium," 1955-1965
    Gen.Phoumi Nosavan "Fedalism is Still with US"
    Secret War Secret Strategy in Laos
    Long Pot Village Rendezvous with Air America
    Gen. Ouane Rattikone The Vientiane Connection
    The CIA in Northwest Laos Prelude to the 1967 Opium War
    Gen. U Ba Thein Reaping the Whirlwind
    The KMT in Thailand Guardian at the Northern Gate
    Battle at Ban Khwan The Challenge of Chan Shee-Fu
    Survival of the Fittest
    The Shan Rebellion The Road to Chaos
    Gen. Ouane Rattikone Winner Takes Something
    Conclusion
       
    8. What Can Be done?

    		Cure the Individual Addict

    		 Destroy the Narcotics Syndicates

    		 Eliminate Illicit Opium Production
    1972 The Year of Decision
       
    Appendix
    China The Historical Setting of Asia's Profitable Plague (by Leonard P. Adams II)

    		 China Grows Her Own

    		 The Tarnished Crusades
       
    Notes

    		Notes: Introduction: The Consequences of Complicity

    		 Notes 1 Sicily: Home of the Mafia

    		 Notes 2 Marseille: America's Heroin Laboratory

    		 Notes 3 The Colonial Legacy: Opium for the Natives

    		 Notes 4 Cold War Opium Boom

    		 Notes 5 South Vietnam: Narcotics in the Nation's Service

    		 Notes 6 Hong Kong: Heir to the Heroin Traffic

    		 Notes 7 The Golden Triangle: Heroin Is Our Most Important Product

    		 Notes 8 What Can Be Done?

    		 Notes 9 Appendix

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    Alfred W McCoy with Meo hill tribe soldiers in the opium-growing country of northern Laos during his investigations in August 1971

     
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