Alfred McCoy on "The Politics of Heroin"

Alfred McCoy is the author of a book called “The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.”  He explains to Jim Fleming how the CIA made deals with warlords in Asia to help drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan during the Cold War. They succeeded, but at the cost of an explosive growth in the opium trade. Same thing happened with the Taliban.  They’re gone, but the heroin trade is booming.