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Investigative journalist Gary Webb's series in the San Jose Mercury News gave new life to the charge of CIA drug running. Rep. John Conyers, Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, convened a special seminar on Capitol Hill to focus on the issue. This panel of experts discusses the new revelations as well CIA covert actions in Southeast Asia, Afghanistan and Central America.
Alfred McCoy is a leading authority on the drug problem and its attendant wars. He is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organised Crime in Australia and The Politics of Heroin.
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