Heroin
Timeline
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| 1965-1970 |
| U.S. involvement in Vietnam is blamed for the surge in illegal heroin being smuggled into the States. |
| To aid U.S. allies, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sets up a charter airline, Air America, to transport raw opium from Burma and Laos. As well, some of the opium would be transported to Marseille by Corsican gangsters to be refined into heroin and shipped to the U.S via the French connection. The number of heroin addicts in the U.S. reaches an estimated 750,000. |
| References Opium Throughout History. Frontline. 1998. |
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History of Heroin, UNDCP 1953