Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated edition
by Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall
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Author: Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale ScottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-10
ISBN: 0520214498
Number of pages: 279
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: A masterpiece of investigative reading
Summary: 4 Stars
This incredible volume was one of the first things I read when I began researching the issue of Contra cocaine trafficking for the San Jose Mercury News in 1995. To call the experience an eye-opener is a major understatement. Cocaine Politics not only confirmed to me that the Contra-drug link was for real, but that it was just a small part of an even more insidious picture: a secret and practically invisible world where intelligence operatives and criminals collude, wreak havoc, and almost always escape prosecution and accountability. When a producer from Dateline NBC, which did a show about my Dark Alliance series, asked me for recommended reading material on this issue, I unhesitatingly recommended Cocaine Politics. His reaction afterwards was memorable: "This is the most amazing book I've ever read. How come I've never heard any of this stuff before?" The answer is pretty obvious once you read this book. If the American public ever got wind of this story, our country and our government would never be the same again.
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