The Politics Of Heroin : Cia Complicity In The ... May 2026

Updated editions of the book detail how the CIA-backed Mujahideen in the 1980s transformed Afghanistan into the world's leading opium producer. McCoy asserts that while the U.S. provided arms to fight the Soviets, it ignored the massive heroin trade that sustained these guerrilla forces.

Upon its initial 1972 release, the CIA attempted to suppress the book's publication by pressuring the publisher, Harper & Row, to allow the Agency to review and "correct" the manuscript. The publisher eventually proceeded after McCoy refused to make significant changes. The politics of heroin : CIA complicity in the ...

Diplomats and intelligence officers often suppressed investigations into the narcotics activities of "friendly" regimes. Updated editions of the book detail how the