Contents

Foreword by Congresswoman Maxine Waters

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

PART ONE

Prologue “It was like they didn’t want to know”

1. “A pretty secret kind of thing”

2. “We were the first”

3. “The brotherhood of military minds”

4. “I never sent cash”

5. “God, Fatherland and Freedom”

6. “They were doing their patriotic duty”

7. “Something happened to Ivan”

8. “A million hits is not enough”

9. “He would have had me by the tail”

10. “Teach a man a craft and he’s liable to practice it”

11. “They were looking in the other direction”

12. “This guy talks to God”

13. “The wrong kind of friends”

14. “It’s bigger than I can handle”

15. “This thing is a tidal wave”

16. “It’s a burn”

17. “We’re going to blow your fucking head off”

18. “We bust our ass and the government’s involved”

19. “He reports to people reporting to Bush”

20. “It is a sensitive matter”

21. “I could go anywhere in the world and sell dope”

22. “They can’t touch us”

23. “He had the backing of a superpower”

24. “They’re gonna forget I was a drug dealer”

PART TWO

25. “Things are moving all around us”

26. “That matter, if true, would be classified”

27. “A very difficult decision”

Epilogue “The damage that has been done”

Notes on Sources

Cast of Characters

Glossary of Organizations and Locations