Since the rise of Communism in the 1920's, the U.S. Government has made allies with the world's largest H traffickers....IF they did America's dirty work for them. From the Deepest Jungles of Laos, to the concrete Jungles of Harlem & Detroit. From brutal Mafioso like Lucky Luciano to flamboyant black kingpins like Frank Matthews... Heroin and Democracy have been for strange, and destructive, bedfellows, for most of the 20th Century. "Cold War, Heroin Heat" covers the from late 1930's until the aftermath of Vietnam in the late 1970's.