VIET HEROIN BOOK AUTHOR IS CRITICIZED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000400050030-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 3, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sen. Gale W. McGee (D-
Wyo.) accused author Alfred
McCoy-"of "McCarthyism"
for his testimony yesterday
linking U.S. and Saigon gov-
ernment officials to heroin
trafficking.
"It seems to me you do
strain the truth a little bit,"
said McGee, who has a doe-
tprate iii history. "Just because
the CIA or an embassy dealt
with some=ofthese_people, it
doesn't mean somehow they're
aiding and' abetting."
"i =ea.your implication,
senator," McCoy responded
during a hearing of the Senate
Foreign Operations Subcom-
mittee. He said his testimony
and material in a forthcoming
1 book ere based on 18 months
of research in Southeast 'Asia
and of interviews with U.S. of-
ficials in this country.
Besides producing photos-
tats of 'a U.S. Vietnam Military
Assistance Command paper al-
leging that South Vietnam's
Lt. Gen. Ngo Dzu and his
father were linked with heroin
1 trafficking, McCoy charged in
his testimony that U.S. diplo-
mats have tried to cover up il-
legal drug activities.
G. McMurtrie Godley, U.S.
ambassador to Taos, "did his
I ofU , g e narcotics of-
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