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From: genji@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Vietnam Series on PBS - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 08:44:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  5 08:44:53 1983
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<<	Posted: Mon Dec  5 21:46:15 1983
<<	Sender: notes@ucbcad.UUCP
<<	According a review I read, the subject of heroin comes up
<<	exactly once.  And I looked in the index of the companion
<<	volume in a bookstore, under 'H', and promptly threw the book
<<	down in disgust.  There is an entire *book* about the pivotal
<<	role that heroin played in the Indochinese wars, called "The
<<	Politics of Heroin in South-East Asia", (A. McCoy, ca. '72) ...
<<	President Thieu and Air Marshall Ky were intimately involved in
<<	the opiate trade festering in the Golden Triangle.  The CIA got
<<	it all started in the 50's, training and arming hill tribes
<<	whose economic base was mountain poppy fields.... One group
<<	within the country managed to wrest control of the opium trade
<<	from its former bosses, the Corsican Mafia (recall the French
<<	colonization) and ...

As for the Corsican Mafia (and i assume you mean "French Connection"),
that gang's modern power was engineered by the USA, which used the gang
in 1948 to break the Communist-led Marsellaises dock strike.  Irving
Brown was the principal CIA agent for that work-- in a recent year
Brown was invited by Solidarity to Poland as an AFL-CIO representative
but the Polish government refused him entrance.		--Genji