The Politics of Heroin book
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Alfred McCoy founded
The Politics of Heroin documented
“The two that has been sitting here the longest and they keep getting usurped, I'll just go ahead and tell you. There are two of my favorite books that I've ever read on this subject. And one of them is The Politics of Heroin by Alfred McCoy…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 1:29:59
Alfred McCoy member_of
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“things that I've highlighted that I definitely want to bring to you guys' attention. It fills in a couple of different squares that we have not heard. So we will likely do that one. And then one of the other ones, you hear Illini talk about…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 1:12:18
CIA covered_up
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“So the entire reason we're there is because of that. In the summer and fall of 1972, the CIA inspector general undertook a formal investigation of the drug traffic spurred on by the detailed revelations that appeared in a book the agency ha…”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 53:15
Alfred McCoy wrote
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“And that was revealed by Alfred McCoy, who wrote the book, The Politics of Heroin, CIA's Complicity in the Global War Trade. And I have that book. That book is referenced in quite a few of these Operation Gladio books that talks about the d…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 55:51
Alfred McCoy authored
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“how there was exposure and a guy by the name of alfred mccoy wrote a book called the politics of heroin in southeast asia i've ordered that book and in the 1990s gary webb was doing a lot of research and producing a lot of information and t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 13 @ 9:22
Alfred McCoy wrote
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“So back to the story. So Danny's planning on meeting CIA operative Edwin Wilson at his jail cell. Casolaro additionally had planned to visit Laos and Burma to further uncover the CIA support for drug trafficking out of the Golden Triangle. …”
▶ Operation Gladio - THE OCTOPUS - Danny Casolaro Murder @ 32:06
Gabriel Kolko wrote
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“let's see, that you might come to the conclusion that acceptance of it is inevitable and unopposed. In the introduction to an essay that Gabriel Kolko wrote, he called it a central reality that, quote, a ruling class makes its policies oper…”
▶ Colonel Towner Exposes OPERATION GLADIO in Drugs, Oil and War Part 9 @ 35:35
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The committee did not reveal the CIA's connection, however, publicly. They never do, and they never do anything about it. That's why all of these committee meetings, as far as I'm concerned, in both the Senate and the House, are a kabuki da…
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they use credible footnotes. He quotes several times McCoy's book, Politics of Heroin, which we've done. He does quote Valentine several times. So that's a great point. You really do, you can't just read stuff with footnotes and not actuall…
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All of that talks about this connection. Where else do you find all of these aspects viewed together? The new edition of Alfred McCoy's massive and invaluable study, The Politics of Heroin, which I also have, and we will definitely be doing…
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The CIA and civil air transport played a key organizing role. I also believe that to understand the full range of McCoy's subject, the politics of heroin, one has to look also at the role played by the drug finance China lobby in the United…
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What is particularly eye-catching is that in 1979, just as in 2001, the war helped avert what would otherwise have been an acute drop in world opium production. So they basically were conducting war to maintain opium. In a book called The P…
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And that was revealed by Alfred McCoy, who wrote the book, The Politics of Heroin, CIA's Complicity in the Global War Trade. And I have that book. That book is referenced in quite a few of these Operation Gladio books that talks about the d…
▶ 53:15
So the entire reason we're there is because of that. In the summer and fall of 1972, the CIA inspector general undertook a formal investigation of the drug traffic spurred on by the detailed revelations that appeared in a book the agency ha…
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Laos military and private air carriers, which by the way, we've already discovered, are all supplied by the CIA. In the summer and fall of 1972, when Hugh Tovar led the CIA station in Laos, the agency's inspector general spurred by detailed…
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The entire thing is bullshit. It's been bullshit for decades. Illini, did you want to say something? Hey, Colonel. Yeah, interesting stuff. I was going back through Alfred McCoy's book, which does cover Vang Pao and the fact that the U.S. A…
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That, you know, it was that Vang Pao was almost certainly going to use, you know, that airport that they were funding for drug trafficking. Yeah. But the CIA pushed it through anyways. It's interesting what like Alfred McCoy was not trying …
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things that I've highlighted that I definitely want to bring to you guys' attention. It fills in a couple of different squares that we have not heard. So we will likely do that one. And then one of the other ones, you hear Illini talk about…
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Why then did the DEA continue to overstate Mexico's role and minimize that of Southeast Asia? Even after publication in 1972 of Alfred McCoy's book, The Politics of Heroin, which I just showed on camera, perhaps to justify the great expendi…
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Read like two thirds of it and never finished it. Alfred McCoy's book, The Politics of Heroin. It's an excellent book. It's a big book. But it is one that Illini references all the time because of how much information that's in it. It's cri…
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of Laos, where it was cooked into heroin by a Chinese chemist operating under protection of the CIA's Major General Radicone, the commander of the Royal Laotian Army. The Laotian Opium War was widely reported. In 1972, Al McCoy outlined the…
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The two that has been sitting here the longest and they keep getting usurped, I'll just go ahead and tell you. There are two of my favorite books that I've ever read on this subject. And one of them is The Politics of Heroin by Alfred McCoy…
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that all along was talking about. Illini, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Just to Kevin Shipp's point as well as to Renee's, I was going through Alfred McCoy's book today, and I stumbled on him receiving all of these unpublished dispatches from Tim…