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Heroin Networks and the French Connection Route
Between 1930 and 1973, Turkish poppy fields, French laboratories, and American street markets formed an integrated supply chain that flooded American cities with heroin while generating billions in illicit revenue. The French Connection represented the first truly international narcotics superstructure, linking Corsican chemists in Marseille to Italian traffickers to American distributors through a system of compartmentalized operations and encrypted communication networks. This episode reconstructs how the network maintained operational security despite constant DEA surveillance, how…
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