Alfred W. McCoy is a noted historian and current Professor of History in the "Center for Southeast Asian Studies", at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his PhD in Southeastern Asian history from Yale University. He primarily researches and writes about Phillipines history and on the Golden Triangle drug trades of opium and heroin; his The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia was a landmark work documenting how the CIA aided, abetted, and controlled the drug trade for its own enrichment and geo-political purposes. The University of Wisconsin is a public university in the state of Wisconsin. ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Motto: Maka-Diyos, Makatao, Makakalikasan, at Makabansa (Filipino: For God, People, Nature, and Country) Anthem: Lupang Hinirang (Chosen Land) Capital Manila Largest city Quezon City (population) Davao City (area) Official language(s) Filipino (Tagalog), English 1 Government President Vice President Democratic republic Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Noli de Castro Independence   Declared... The Golden Triangle can refer to: The Golden Triangle is one of Asia’s two main illicit opium-producing (opium) areas. ... Opium is a narcotic analgesic drug which is obtained from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L. or the synonym paeoniflorum). ... Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In 2001, the Association for Asian Studies awarded him the Grant Goodman Prize for his career contributions to the study of the Phillipines. The Association for Asian Studies is a society focused on facilitating contact and information exchange among scholars of East Asian fields. ...

Partial bibliography

• Laos: War and Revolution, co-editor, 1970
• The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, with Cathleen B. Read and Leonard P. Adams II, 1972, SBN 06-012901-8
• An Anarchy Of Families (state and family in the Philippines), 1998, ISBN 9-715-50128-1
• Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy, 1999, ISBN 0-300-07765-3
• A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War, 2006, ISBN 0-805-08041-4

External links

• Page on McCoy at the "Center for Southeast Asian Studies"
• Interview of McCoy on The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
• "A Correspondence with the CIA" -(part of an article for the The New York Review of Books on the CIA's interest in his Politics of Heroin
• "Cruel Science: The Long Shadow of CIA Torture Research" -(article for Counterpunch on the Abu Ghraib tortures)
• "The Hidden History of CIA Torture: America's Road to Abu Ghraib" -(similar editorial for Truthout)