This provocative, thoroughly researched book explores the covert aspects of U.S.
foreign policy. Prominent political analyst Peter Dale Scott marshals a convinc
ing array of evidence to expose the extensive trail of sanctioned but illicit vi
olence in politics and state affairs, especially when related to America's long-
standing involvement with the global drug traffic. Beginning with Thailand in th
e 1950s, Americans have become inured to the CIA's alliances with drug trafficke
rs (and their bankers) to install and sustain right-wing governments. The patter
n has repeated itself in Laos, Vietnam, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Venezu
ela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Panama, Honduras, Turkey, Pakistan, and now Afghanis
tan to name only those countries dealt with in this book. The so-called war on t
error, and in particular the war in Afghanistan, constitutes only the latest cha
pter in this disturbing story."
