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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

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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