Sublime

CIA assessment,

Central Intelligence Agency collusion in the international heroin and cocaine trade of our own time.

In 1947, when Greece was threatened by a Communist takeover, President Harry Truman, who had planned to disband the OSS, turned it into the CIA instead, creating a new feature of national life, the civilian spy agency. (The only comparable institution had been Naval Intelligence, which grew out of the Spanish-American War.) The CIA was created by t

That the CIA is quite literally a conspiracy—a secretive organization designed to spy—is something most people can accept as factually true yet still find emotionally hard to express. For most people, it is enough to hear the word “conspiracy” for it to force all further interest to vanish like a magic spell.

Western intelligence groups, such as the CIA and the French secret service, turn their attention to the importation of cocaine in the eighties, after having lost a near monopoly on heroin to the heroin-dealing mullahs of the Iranian Revolution. The history of commercial drug synergies—the way in which one drug has been cynically encouraged and used