In their signature journalistic style, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair batter the CIA on their record of drug dealing--from Laos and Nicaragua to the streets of Los Angeles. The US press has remained shamelessly silent on the matter, obscuring the agency and its association with gangsters, Nazis, and thugs for the last sixty years, enabling this criminality to persist.

This new edition includes updated information on the CIA's own Dark Alliance investigations and the expanded opium trade in Afghanistan since September 11.

Alexander Cockburn andJeffrey St. Clair are editors ofCounterPunch, the popular print and web journal.