The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on DrugsVerso, 2004 - 554 من الصفحات The Strength of the Wolf presents for the first time a definitive history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) from its birth in 1930 until its wrenching termination in 1968. Carefully and extensively documented, the book is based largely on interviews with former FBN agents, and in this respect The Strength of the Wolf represents a new chapter in American history, one that introduces a cast of fabulous characters. Douglas Valentine tells how the FBN's premier case-making agents penetrated the arcane world of international drug trafficking and, by uncovering the Establishment's ties to organized crime, brought about their own demise. As the book reveals in startling detail, the CIA and FBI were often protecting the FBN's major targets in the Mafia and the French Corsican underworld. The CIA and its Nationalist Chinese allies were found to be the largest drug-trafficking syndicate in the world, but for political and national security reasons, the FBN was prevented from investigating this overarching conspiracy. |
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THE BIRTH OF A BUREAU | 6 |
THE COMMISSIONER AND HIS CLIQUE | 17 |
ANSLINGERS ANGST | 34 |
INSIDE THE FBN | 50 |
GODS WORK | 66 |
CREATING A CRIME | 81 |
CONTINENTAL CAPERS | 98 |
THE BEIRUT OFFICE | 115 |
THE FRENCH CONNECTION | 263 |
VALACHI | 280 |
THE FBN AND THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK | 300 |
NO INNOCENTS ABROAD | 319 |
THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION | 338 |
THE NEW FRENCH CONNECTION | 358 |
THE NEW BARBARIANS | 379 |
THE LAW OFTHE JUNGLE | 397 |
THE SECRET POLICEMAN | 127 |
TRUE DETECTIVES | 142 |
ST MICHAELS SERGEANT AT ARMS | 158 |
GANGBUSTERS | 173 |
ANGLOPHILES AND FRANCOPHOBES | 190 |
A SHOOFLY IN THE OINTMENT | 209 |
THE MAGIC BUTTON | 222 |
MAKING THE MAFIA | 236 |
AGGRAVATING EDGAR BOBBY KENNEDY AND THE FBN | 249 |
GOLDEN TRIANGLE ENTERPRISES | 414 |
MY ONLY FRIEND | 433 |
ANDYS GANG | 440 |
EPILOGUE | 455 |
APPENDIX | 471 |
NOTES | 479 |
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