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72 The proceeds from this operation: Financing its colonial administration
through the sale of opium was standard practice
in Indochina. In the early 1900s, twenty-five percent of the
colony’s gross general budget came from the sale of opium.
At its peak in 1918, the figure rose to forty-two percent.
Chantal Descours-Gatin, Quand l’opium finançait la colonization
en Indochine (Paris: l’Harmattan, 1992), 222–225;
Philippe Le Failler, “Le movement international anti-opium
et l’Indochine (1906–1940),” Ph.D. diss., Institut d’Histoire
des Pays d’Outre-Mer, Université de Provence-Aix Marseille
1, 1993; and Jean Michaud, “The Montagnards and the
State in Northern Vietnam from 1802 to 1975: A Historical
Overview. Ethnohistory 47, no. 2 (2000): 345.
BRAIN GRAFT
76 Lansdale writes in his autobiography: Written accounts of
Edward Lansdale’s intelligence work are highly unreliable,
with the least reliable being his autobiography. See Edward
Lansdale, In the Midst of Wars: An American Mission to
Southeast Asia (1972; New York: Fordham University Press,
1991); and Cecil B. Currey, Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet
American (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988). See also
Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-
Hating and Empire Building (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1980); and Jonathan Nashel, Edward Lansdale’s
Cold War (Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press, 2005).
79 Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers: The History
of United States Decisionmaking on Vietnam, a forty-seven
volume, seven thousand word study of U.S. involvement in
the Vietnam war from 1945 to 1968, has never been published
in its entirety. The New York Times rushed a volume
of selected material into print in 1971. This was followed by