Alfred McCoy

Alfred McCoy is an internationally renowned authority on the history of CIA torture. He is the author of A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (Metropolitan Books, 2006). His first book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (New York, 1972), originally sparked controversy when the CIA tried to block its publication. After three English editions and translation into nine foreign languages, this study is now regarded as the “classic” work on the global drug trade (Revised Edition, New York, 2003). His monograph Closer Than Brothers (New Haven, 1999) studies the impact of CIA torture training upon the Philippine military.

Books
[2006] A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
[1972] The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred W. McCoy with Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P.Adams II