Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press by St Clair, Jeffrey Hardback Book The

A shocking expose of the CIA’s role as drug baron. Many years’ worth of CIA denials, much of it under oath to Congress, were sunk. We travel to little-known airports in Costa Rica and Arkansas. They trace how the Cold War and counter-insurgency led to an alliance between the Agency and the vilest of war criminals like Klaus Barbie, or fanatic opium traders like the mujahedin in Afghanistan.