Operation Pseudo Miranda: A Veteran of the CIA Drug Wars Tells All

This true story involves harrowing missions into Columbia to destroy coca labs and interdict drug fights, encounters with the "Cocaine Cowboys" of Medellin, and running gun battles on the high seas with smugglers. It is laced with mortal danger, profound ethical dilemmas, bravery, forbidden love, and betrayal. In the 1980's cocaine use skyrocked in the U.S. As hundreds of tons of cocaine began flooding American cities, the U.S. government focused more and more of its resources on combatting it, and the CIA played a major role. However, with millions of dollars at stake, and the opportunity to surreptitiously influence the political and military outcomes of conflicts around the globe, the CIA quickly subverted the goals of the Drug War to suit its own purposes. Many of these later came to light as part of the Iran-contra scandal. Others, such as "Operation Pseudo Miranda", remained cloaked in secrecy...until now.Bucchi tells of meeting with then CIA director William Casey and proposing a plan -- Pseudo Miranda -- to make a deal with the "coke lords" that would enable the CIA to simultaneously abet and control them and to seize half of the cocaine they imported into the U.S. The story that unfolds is gripping. In the end, things go terribly wrong for the Miranda team, but Bucchi survives to tell the chocking truth about the CIA and America's war on drugs.Kenneth C. Bucchi is the author of 'Operation Pseudo Miranda: A Veteran of the CIA Drug Wars Tells All' with ISBN 9781883955175 and ISBN 1883955173.