Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA, by Jonathan Marshall. Carefully read this fascinating in-depth exploration of the dark side of American society, of criminals of the underworld and the elite overworld, by the intrepid investigative reporter Jonathan Marshall.  Marshall is an independent scholar living in the San Francisco Bay Area, author of Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy; The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic; Drug Wars; and (with Peter Dale Scott) Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, A former journalist, he has also published hundreds of articles in magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

Here is a podcast interview with Marshall concerning his extensive article above.

Opium and the Politics of Gangsterism in Nationalist China, 1927-1945 — Jonathan Marshall article

Cooking the Books: The Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the China Lobby and Cold War Propaganda, 1950-1962, by Jonathan Marshall

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