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... c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last| Contents| Next Issue 33 The CIA and Drugs One of the biggest stories in the six months since the last Lobster has been the CIA-deals-crack story. The Web site at ciadrugs@mars.galstar.com has an enormous amount of information, including an important piece by Robert Parry, 'Lost History: Contras, Dirty Money and the CIA.' Another important background piece is Jack Blum's testimony to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee last year, which is reproduced in Covert Action Quarterly no. 59. However, in my opinion the two best pieces on the CIA-drugs issue which appeared since the last Lobster are Daniel Brandt and Steve Badrich's below, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 483 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-07.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 36) Winter 1998/9 Last| Contents| Next Issue 36 Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion Gary Webb Seven Stories Press, USA, $24.95 Peter Dale Scott This appeared in San Francisco Chronicle on June 28, 1998. The Chronicle edited out a section... This has been restored and is in italics. What the Chronicle found too sensitive to publish is rather interesting- editor. Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. Two years ago Gary Webb touched off a national controversy with his news stories linking the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 256 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-11.htm
... mind-bending episodes, already on the public record, of CIA-drug-trafficker complicity. How the story broke The CIA's latest trials on this issue began in August 1996 with the now notorious series on crack cocaine in the San José Mercury News. In this series, reporter Gary Webb made the case that the CIA, through the actions of several drug-dealing Nicaraguan contras it had funded, was involved in the introduction of crack into Los Angeles during the 1980s. Parallel stories have appeared in provincial papers before, and been ignored. But San Jose isn't in Silicon Valley for nothing; the Mercury News boosted Webb's stories with its state-of-the-art website and a political storm began to blow. Soon Maxine Waters of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 101 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-08.htm
... worth noting that there is a glaring error in 70.3: Resorts International had not been formed when the Mafia were expelled from Cuba. However, overall the affidavit is worth getting: $10.00 (US) from The Christic Institute, 1324 North Capitol St. N.W., Washington DC 20002, USA.*** The First "Contra War": Organized Crime and Right-wing Terror-Politics 70. Sources #48 and #49 described above, as well as Sources #67 and #68, who are tenured professors at accredited universities in the U.S. who conduct professional research into government documents, interview persons in the U.S. intelligence community, and teach accredited courses regarding the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Feb 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue15/lob15-04.htm
... a powerful network of far-right radio commentators, the American press insists on noting only those financial scandals which don't sully ultra-conservative politicians. Of either party. For example: Rush Limbaugh, who has become the Republican Party's Goebbels, loudly applauded Clinton's appointment of Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, an appalling Texas (Democrat) senator who strongly supported the Nicaraguan contras. This seal of approval may explain why Radio Right, in its fury to denounce the Waco debacle, refused to go after Bentsen- even though he was the cabinet officer in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms which initiated the ill-fated raid against David Korech's cult compound. For that matter, nobody wants to talk ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 78 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-05.htm
... Panamanian military in April. Harari used his position to become kingpin in Israeli trade with Panama- trade not only in commercial goods but also in US intelligence intercepted in Panama. Allegations have also been made that US high technology found its way to Israel through Harari's network. Harari's main contact in the US is a figure often mentioned in the Contra investigations, former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez's close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA's Donald Gregg, was the Reagan administration's prime channel to Israel on matters regarding the Contras. Former Noriega aide, Jose Blandon, testifying to Senator John Kerry's subcommittee on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 65 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-06.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 37) Sumer 1999 Last| Contents| Next Issue 37 Official: CIA does mean Cocaine Importing Agency after all On October 8 1998 the CIA's Inspector General published a report on the recent CIA-cocaine controversy which- apparently- more or less copped the lot, acknowledging that the CIA had ignored drug smuggling by its Contra allies. (See for example The Independent 7 November 1998, 'CIA turned a deliberate blind eye to Contras' drug smuggling'. I say 'apparently' above because I have not read the report in question.) There is even a reliable report of evidence implicating a CIA employee in a plot to smuggle cocaine into Los Angeles. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 52 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-08.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last| Contents| Next Issue 38 Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the press and 'Project Truth'Robert Parry, The Media Consortium, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 1999 $19.95 (US) $25.00 (Europe) ISBN 1-893517-00-4 Another important book from Parry, author of Trick or Treason about the so-called October Surprise. Parry has two major themes here. The first is the contra-cocaine story which he tried to research as it broke in the 1980s while employed by elements of the major media, PA and then Newsweek. The resistance to his research he met among the editors and managers of both organisations leads ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 52 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-23.htm
... the Senate Intelligence Committee observed that Ghorbanifar had once offered to swap intelligence on Iran for protection of the 'drug smuggling activities' of several of his close associates.(4) Although George protested to CIA Director William Casey that he was 'not going to run this guy', North liked Ghorbanifar's 'neat idea' of diverting arms profits to the contras via Switzerland. And so the deals continued, supervised by only a handful of NSC, CIA and Pentagon aides. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International Ghorbanifar was only a middle man with good Iranian connections, not a financier. Bridge money for several of the arms sales he brokered in this period came from the Saudi arms dealer ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-03.htm
... Nixon's Vietnam interventions through the Watergate period, seems only too relevant today, as we learn how much money had been channelled by Marcos into U.S. political campaigns over the last decade and a half. The thesis of "Transnationalised Repression" also seems only too relevant to U.S. politics in Nicaragua, as we learn of support for the Contras from first Argentina and Israel, and now allegedly from South Africa. The restrained optimism of the essay's conclusions, written in the first year of the Carter presidency, may sound a little odd after six years of Reagan. Support for drug-running criminals has moved from being the dark underside of U.S. foreign policy to (in the case ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-01.htm
