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Title: The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic by Michael Levine, Laura Kavanau-Levine ISBN: 1-56025-064-X Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Reads like a Tom Clancy novel - but this is TRUE
Comment: Mike Levine is a good writer. Add that to the fact that he was one of the best undercover agents in American history and you've got the equation for a great book. I had to stop myself a number of times to remember that this is NON-Fiction. The bumbling and deception that goes on at the higher levels of our Criminal Justice system would be laughable had this been a work of fiction. There is just too much detail here for it NOT to be true. This book, coupled with Levine's other book "Deep Cover" show you how the people in power manipulate the media to show the public the reality they want them to see. In light of the Iraq war "intelligence" misinformation, we can see that nothing has changed. In fact, the stakes have gotten higher.
Rating: 5
Summary: Was This Book "Privished?"
Comment: Note that this review is 4 years after publication... four years of silence.
A book that tears the mask off the fraudulent "War on Drugs". It exposes the growth of the war from two (highly mutually destructive) agencies in 1971 (Customs and DEA) to 55 and counting. It describes very extensive, high-volume CIA involvement in smuggling itself to obtain unaccountable funding.
It documents the cost of the fraudulent war. In dollars misspent, in innocent lives lost through raids gone amok and witnesses silenced, in the credibility of government agencies and the news media, and in the harm resulting from the 5-fold increase (his figures) in drug usage during the time $1 trillion has been wasted in the fight.
Recommend finding this book used or in a library, or reading Levine's chapter in "Into the Buzzsaw" by Kristina Borjesson.
Rating: 4
Summary: A true American hero.
Comment: I rank this book with "Dark Alliance" and "C.I.A.: Cocaine In America" as the most telling indictment of America's pseudo-war on drugs. Unlike most suthors who pontificate solutions from ivory towers and exhort stratagem with quill pens, Mr. Levine, not unlike Mr. VesBucci, for that matter, advises from hard-fought experience.
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Title: Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War by Michael Levine, Michael L:evine ISBN: 0595092640 Publisher: iUniverse Publishing Services Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Dark Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb ISBN: 1888363681 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press by Kristina Borjesson, Gore Vidal ISBN: 1573929727 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street by Robert M. Stutman, Richard Esposito ISBN: 0446515582 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win by Elaine Shannon ISBN: 0670810266 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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