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Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism Paperback – August 1, 1981

by Henrik Kruger (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
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  1. Print length
    240 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Black Rose Books Ltd
  4. Publication date
    August 1, 1981
  5. ISBN-10
    0919619169
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0919619166
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Rose Books Ltd (August 1, 1981)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0919619169
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0919619166
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.3 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Lee Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars War on drugs.
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2016
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Extremely informative about the world drug trade.
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Vanya Limonov
5.0 out of 5 stars A wild, fascinating read...
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2000
Danish investigative author Henrik Kruger set out to write a book about Christian David, a French criminal with a colorful past, and wound up writing a book that spans all continents and names names all the way up to Richard Nixon! The same names keep popping up here and in other books of its type, like Howard Hunt and other various CIA spooks and gangsters. A few of the characters have even been named in connection with the JFK assassination. This is not some bizarre conspiracy theory book, however, as everything is thorougly researched and annotated.
The basic premise is that the Nixon administration/CIA wanted to eliminate the old French Connection and replace it with heroin from the Golden Triangle, partly in order to help finance operations in Southeast Asia. He also goes into the relationships between French and US intelligence services and organized crime.
This is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. In fact, I've read it three times, and wouldn't mind reading it again. Even if you don't buy the premise, it's very informative regarding the structure of French secret services.
Another good author in this same vein is Michael Levine, former DEA agent who quit in disgust after investigation after investigation was torpedoed by the CIA on the grounds of "national security".
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Nathan Koeneman
3.0 out of 5 stars All around a good book though
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2018
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A little dry, so many names and dates! All around a good book though.
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David L. Olson
1.0 out of 5 stars Illogical ranting
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2022
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The author has a highly biased perspective, contending many relationships that seem random - many contentions are made with little coherent systematic logic.
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hurn airport
5.0 out of 5 stars American secret drug dealing by the state and organised crime above the law.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2017
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The best single volume history of America's drug pushing .the greatest drug dealer the world has ever seen is the united states of America in the form of the cia in cahoots with the mafia.when president Kennedy said the cia should be smashed and broken into a thousand pieces read why.mass murder ,torture ,rape nothing is to low for these people and their acolytes.if president trump doesn't clean the stable nothing will change and this book tells you why .the world is run by corrupt politicians owned by the secret deep state unaccountable to no one
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Hank Norville Carter
4.0 out of 5 stars Contains some excellent revelations but I'm not sure I buy the overall conspiracy.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2022
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This book is essential reading for anyone who still accepts that the US War on Drugs was ever motivated by a desire to do good, or that governments ever tried to stop a drug dealer whose profits were helping to fund the fight against global communism. The author reveals dozens of undeniably corrupt collaborations between the largest drug producers and smugglers on earth and the security forces/intelligence agencies of most of the worlds most powerful and anti-drug nations. It contains lots of fascinating facts that would make the perfect anecdotes for any antiestablishment social justice warrior to sound knowledgeable about - such when Nixon bought the entire opium crop off the Turks, and payed them to start a crop replacement program, ending their near thousand year history of opium cultivation, the Shah of Iran immediately announced that his farmers would once more be allowed to grow poppies and make opium. The area of land used to cultivate these crops was twice the size of the one that Turkey had just ended. Nixon spent a fortune to increase cultivation 100% and push it one country further east.
The only thing I found too much to accept was when the author attempted to conclude his book by combining all the disparate and random examples of corruption, greed and incompetence into a single, all encompassing conspiracy. I found that a step too far, a bit too much like the Spectre Organisation on Bond films. Too close to the Illuminatus Trilogy. But, apart from that (for which I've deducted one star) I'd strongly recommend this book as essential reading for anyone with an interest in the war on drugs and the realities of realpolitik.
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Andrew
4.0 out of 5 stars Golden snow.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2017
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Fantastic and rich contextual information regarding post war high shenanigans. Update really needed to be a separate book though. Well worth the time invested reading.
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