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The book traces this pattern across multiple decades and regions, showing how U.S. intervention consistently correlated with surges in drug production:

Diplomats and intelligence officers often suppressed investigations into the narcotics activities of "friendly" regimes. The politics of heroin : CIA complicity in the ...

During the Vietnam War, the CIA supported Hmong tribesmen in Laos and South Vietnamese officials who were heavily involved in the opium trade. This led to a heroin epidemic among U.S. soldiers serving in Vietnam, with estimates suggesting up to 15% were users by 1971. The book traces this pattern across multiple decades