Reply #81: Alfred McCoy's classic The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

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http://www.drugtext.org/library/books/McCoy/default.htm

says it all; Peter Dale Scott's book on cocaine trade is another goodie, Cocaine Politics

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Drug_War/Cocaine_Politics.html

Then to see where all this money is skimmed to , go to Tim Weiner's book

http://www.namebase.org/sources/PR.html

Bottom line, an extra-Constitutional funding pipeline that's "off the books". What they can't get out of the public defense dollars they get from offshore.