How Elite Special Operations Troops Created a Drug Cartel

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How Elite Special Operations Troops Created a Drug Cartel

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The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, by Seth Harp, Penguin Random House, 368 pages, $30
Despite the drug war, U.S. intelligence agencies have sometimes made common cause with rebel forces or client states that dealt in narcotics. Alfred McCoy's…

This story appeared on reason.com, 2025-08-12 11:30:32.