![]() ![]() Golden Triangle heroin refineries supplied kilos to South Vietnam where US troops could buy the drug in $2 vials.Īmerican families feared their brothers and sons would bring home an addiction epidemic that spread across the US. “I’m a 100%, Middle Eastern Jew.”īut he was full of bravado and keen to infiltrate the Southeast Asian drug trade as Mike, a mafia capo eager to import heroin to the US.Īt the time, the American media was fixated on Vietnam War veterans returning home addled by drugs - namely, powder-white Southeast Asian heroin produced in the Golden Triangle: a craggy, lawless expanse of Myanmar bordering Thailand, China and Laos. Levine - a Bronx-raised, federal agent in his early 30s - was gearing up for his toughest deep cover job yet. He’d invented a character for himself: “Mike,” an Italian mafioso from New York City. ![]() President Richard Nixon had just declared the war on drugs. And you’re going to die if your act is bad.” It’s acting, said former Drug Enforcement Administration agent Michael Levine - “Only, you’re acting with your audience about 2 inches from your face. Anti-narcotics agents call it deep cover: playing the role of a drug trafficker to mingle with actual criminals. ![]()
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