The Great Heroin Coup probes into the netherworld of narcotics, espionage, and; international terrorism and uncovers alliances between the CIA, French intelligence, Pakistani intelligence, the Mafia and right-wing extremists, including neo-fascist OAS and SAC veterans in France, anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami and Islamic fundamentalist warlords. It became a cult book when it was published in the U.S. and has been out-of-print for over thirty years. In this newly revised and updated edition, Henrik Krüger and Jerry Meldon have added extensive new material. Danish investigative journalist/author Krüger set out to write a book about Christian David, a French gangster with a colorful past, and wound up writing one-originally published in Danish in 1976 and in English in 1980-that spans the globe and names names all the way up to Richard Nixon. As Krüger saw it, the Nixon administration and CIA's hidden motives for eliminating the Corsican Mafia-controlled French Connection were to help their confederates in the Sicilian/American Mafia corner the market on Golden Triangle heroin, and to help finance intelligence operations in Southeast Asia-just as the French had done during their war in Indochina. Familiar names keep popping up-among them CIA veteran Howard Hunt, one of the spooks working for the Nixon reelection committee caught up in the Watergate scandal.

Far from spouting a bizarre conspiracy theory, this thoroughly researched and annotated book lifts the veil on global networks of para-fascist terrorists and drug kingpins, who have plotted, trafficked and murdered with impunity, thanks to their patrons in the intelligence agencies of the so-called "Free World." In short, this updated edition tells a story-which continues to the present moment in Afghanistan-that our own mainstream media have systematically failed to tell. Book jacket.