CIA SAID EYEING STUDENT'S BOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200300085-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: July 24, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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The CIA with the permission
A Yale University graduate
student's forthcoming book on
heroin traffic in Southeast Asia
is reportedly being reviewed by
the Central Intelligence Agency
Alfred W. McCoy, 26, of 29
Lake Place, a Ph.D. student in
Southeast Asian studies, spent
18 months in Asia investigating
narc6tics operations and recent-
.ly'testified before the Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee
-on Foreign Aid. .
of harper & Row, the books
publishers, is reviewing t h e
manuscript of McCoy's book
with the intention of demon-
strating that some of the book's
claims kre "totally false and
without foundation," according
to a recent article in The New
York Times.
McCoy testified in two Con-
gressional appearances in June
that the material in the forth-
coming book, "The Politics Of-
~es d on n Somorc utheast 250 inter-
views, some with CIA officials.
In a chapter of the book print-
ed sd a7 renMcCay chla d
He testified at the time, that
;aircraft chartered by the CIA
'and the Agency for Internation-
.al Development have been
transporting opium harvested
by the agency's tribal merce-
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naries on a regular basis.
. _-_ 1 has gone beyond coincidental.
'es have
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that "American invotvy.rnent
ern Burma, northern Thatlanu
and northern Laos-produce 70
per cent of the world's supply
of raw opium and that much of
it is being funneled to addicts
on New York streets..
"After pouring billions of dol-
lars into Southeast Asia for
over 20 years, the United States
has acquired enormous power
in the region. And it has used
tions were non-existed, to hand
pick prime ministers, to topple
goverrunents and to crush revo-
lutions.
"Unless something is done to
change America's policies and
priorities in Southeast Asia, the
drug crisis will deepen and the
heroin plague will continue to
" McCoy wrote.
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McCoy could not be reached
Sunday night for comment.
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At the time of his Congres-
!signal testimony, McCoy .was
described as a very thorough
scholar and not the antiwar
type" by a senate staff mcm-
'ber. .
In t h e magazine article,
McCoy wrote that during the
ast several months of 1970,
? ore American soldiers were
vacuated "mas casualitcs
-corn South Vietnam for durg-
elated reasons than for reasons
axing to do with war wounds.,,
lie also wrote that farmers in
IA contract airlines .have re-
;portedly carried opium a n d
individual CIA men have abet-
ted the Opium traf f ic."
as? -
,?complicrty; ern
consciously covered up involve-
iment by client governmc'nts,
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