a book by Henrik Kruger
The Great Heroin Coup raises awkward questions. The first half of the book
concerns French intelligence, the OAS, the Corsican Mafia and the CIA, the Ben
Barka affair, and the story of Christian David; the second half examines the CIA
and Mafia in the Golden Triangle, Cuban exiles in Florida, the Nixon-Vesco
connection, and the CIA's infiltration of the DEA in Latin America. The
conclusion is not essential to the rich detail and dense footnoting throughout
the book, but here it is: Nixon's war against the
Turkey-Marseilles heroin allowed Trafficante's marketing "coup" using heroin
from Southeast Asia, and for Kruger it appears that there may have been passive
collusion in high places.
ISBN 0-89608-031-5