Editing Allen Ginsberg (section)

===CIA drug trafficking===
{{See also|Allegations of CIA drug trafficking}}
Ginsberg worked closely with [[Alfred W. McCoy]]<ref name="convo">{{Cite web |last=Hendryckx |first=Michiel |date=June 21, 2018 |title=When Allen Ginsberg met the head of the CIA – and offered him a wager |url=https://theconversation.com/when-allen-ginsberg-met-the-head-of-the-cia-and-offered-him-a-wager-98363 |access-date=March 19, 2021 |website=The conversation}}</ref> on the latter's book ''[[The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia]]'', which claimed that the [[CIA]] was knowingly involved in the production of heroin in the [[Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)|Golden Triangle]] of [[Myanmar|Burma]], Thailand, and Laos.<ref name="Boca Raton News; October 1, 1972">{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=October 1, 1972 |title=Heroin, U.S. tie probed |volume=17 |page=9B |work=Boca Raton News |agency=United Press International |issue=218 |location=Boca Raton, Florida |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19721001&id=usJTAAAAIBAJ&pg=5921,3238572 |access-date=December 5, 2015}}</ref> In addition to working with McCoy, Ginsberg personally confronted [[Richard Helms]], the director of the CIA in the 1970s, about the matter, but Helms denied that the CIA had anything to do with selling illegal drugs.<ref name="convo" /><ref>Ginsberg, Allen, and Hyde, Lewis. ''On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg''. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1984.  Print.</ref> Ginsberg wrote many essays and articles, researching and compiling evidence of the CIA's alleged involvement in drug trafficking, but it took ten years, and the publication of McCoy's book in 1972, before anyone took him seriously.<ref name="convo" /> In 1978, Ginsberg received a note from the chief editor of ''[[The New York Times]]'', apologizing for not having taken his allegations seriously.<ref>{{harvnb|Morgan|2007|pp=470–77}}</ref> The political subject is dealt with in his song/poem "CIA Dope calypso".  The [[United States Department of State]] responded to McCoy's initial allegations stating that they were "unable to find any evidence to substantiate them, much less proof."<ref name="Daytona Beach Morning Journal; June 3, 1972">{{Cite news |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=June 3, 1972 |title=Heroin Charges Aired |volume=XLVII |page=6 |work=Daytona Beach Morning Journal |agency=Associated Press |issue=131 |location=Daytona Beach Florida |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19720601&id=jE8fAAAAIBAJ&pg=1052,514907 |access-date=December 5, 2015}}</ref>  Subsequent investigations by the [[Central Intelligence Agency Office of Inspector General|Inspector General of the CIA]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities |title=Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities |date=April 26, 1976 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |series=Report – 94th Congress, 2d session, Senate ; no. 94-755 |volume=Book 1 |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=227–28 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015070725273 |ref={{harvid|Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities|1976}} |author-link=Church Committee}}</ref> [[United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078590943;view=2up;seq=1 |title=The U.S. Heroin Problem and Southeast Asia: Report of a Staff Survey Team of the Committee of Foreign Affairs |date=January 11, 1973 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C. |pages=10, 30, 61 |ref={{harvid|Report of a Staff Survey Team of the Committee of Foreign Affairs|1973}} |author-link=United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs |access-date=May 23, 2017}}</ref> and United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a.k.a. the [[Church Committee]],{{sfn|Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities|1976|pp=205, 227}} also found the charges to be unsubstantiated.