The Big White Lie: The Deep Cover Operation That Exposed the CIA Sabotage of the Drug War

Ok book. Ok so it discusses a couple of instances. Have a great couple pages about the wider context, would love to have heard more about this context. I agree with him and understand the war in drugs is fake to keep people in jobs, but this book reads like just an annoyed disgruntled DEA agent, to someone that doesn't understand about the phony war and that the US drug deals big time.

This is a surprisingly well written tell all story of a DEA agent who was shunned and impeded from arresting the biggest cocaine dealers in Latin America. Why? Because throughout the 80's at the height of Bush/Reagan's War od Drugs the CIA was important tonnes of cocaine and flooding the streets od LA and Miami with cocaine to finance their intervention in Nicaragua, Bolivia, Guatemala. It is sickening. Olly North and George Bush presided over a genocide

Initially involving but ultimately unconvincing. Way too much chutzpah and too little context. Not expensive to buy on Kindle..... Which is probably why it sells... Next time I think I'll invest in something with a little more verifiable history and a little less egotistical swagger. We do all love to hate the CIA.

So it isn't a myth after all, the CIA were totally complicit in drug trafficking. Excellent book very well laid out, kind of feel almost desperate for the Author who was put in such a ridiculous position that I don't know how he had the sensibility to carry on or indeed survive, but he did, so you should read his book! I can't get the "Yellow Coke" out of my head, I mean they may as well have given him a weapon to shoot himself with. Ballsy dude.

I have read before on the corrupt CIA but this is an eye opener in many ways and to find out that the problem with drugs in the US is by there own government and the fact that they had assassinated its own people lets your mind wonder to other things that have happened around the world.

Increadible story which tallies well with other descriptions of CIA influences on the “threat of Communism” in both South East Asia and South America.

Confirms many of the things you already suspected about the CIA and DEA. As corrupt as any South / Central American Government, and serving the Imperialist Republican agenda.

A good read! More like a novel in its style but nevertheless very enjoyable. The book exposes a duplicitous US government duping the American population. The U.S. federal government has lost all morality in its war against drugs and historians will no doubt look to place their actions in context with other great crimes by governments on its own population.