<p>By Alfred W. McCoy with Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II.  Illustrated. 464 pages with Index, Appendix, Notes, and Glossary.  SBN 06-012901-8.  An Amazon customer review: "This in-depth academic study researches the central role that opium plays in the economy, politics, and wars of the region. It follows the trail from the highlands of Laos, where the opium is grown and harvested by the Hmong tribespeople, to the Golden Triangle, where it is refined into heroin. Published in 1972, this was the first printed account of the USA's massive engagement in a 'secret' war in Laos. It documented the use of CIA helicopters to bring Laotian opium to market in Vietnam (where, ironically, it was sold to addicted US soldiers.) This was done to finance weapons for the army of Hmong highlanders, being led by CIA 'advisors', who were fighting the Laotian communists. There was only one edition of this book; immediately after its first printing, the entire publisher was bought by the U.S. government, and all warehoused copies were destroyed. However, with a bit of luck it can still be found in used bookstores."</p>

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia

Politics & Social Sciences

Alfred W. McCoy

Social Sciences

Harper&Row

<p>A fascinating, often meticulous unraveling of the byzantine complexities of the Southeast Asian opium and heroin trade...pioneering book.  "This is a book the CIA tried to suppress before its publication."</p>

Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies)

University of Wisconsin Press

Introduction and compilation of scholarly essays on five countries, which reassess the transformation thesis of the wartime period (the Japanese interregnum) previously elaborated upon by Harry J. Benda and others.

Southeast Asia Under Japanese Occupation: Transition and Transformation (Monograph Series)

History

Asia

Yale Univ Southeast Asia Studies

In The Shadows Of The American Century

Archaeology

HARPER/COLLINS

Philippine cartoons: Political caricature of the American era, 1900-1941

Alfredo Roces

Vera-Reyes (Manila)

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