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... 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 ...
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... (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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... they tell us. (Though how do they know?) All the tales of 'rogue elephants' told in the last twenty years are spurious. Their account of the CIA is wilfully inadequate, even for a three page summary. They describe the fund-ing of the Contras without mentioning drugs, even when the CIA itself has admitted getting permission from the US Attorney General to ignore cocaine dealing in return for donations to the Contras. You get the picture. The ISC has written eight reports since its inception, as well as its ...
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... monthly report on Israel's diplomatic and military activities world-wide'. It is 8 pages A4 and though this is not a subject I am interested in, this looks very impressive and is thoroughly documented. September 1988 includes (using IFA's headlines) Jerusalem Christian 'embassy' aids Contras Israeli Help on New South African Aircraft Pentagon Sleaze Pipeline Sleaze etc etc. It's your basic parapolitics methodology (read and collate a hell of a lot) applied to Israel's foreign policy. It is one of the tragedies of the post-war years that Israel should have ...
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... week's casualties in El Salvador. In attempting to distinguish between 'our' terror and 'terror' George Schultz actually says (p19): "it is not hard to tell... who are the terrorists and who are the freedom fighter.... the Contras in Nicaragua do not blow up school buses or hold mass executions of civilians." This is preposterous, of course. I can't be bothered doing it, but I'd bet a trawl through the press on the war in Nicaragua in the past three years would ...
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... empire'. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be getting support from Washington: Renamo and the Contras come to mind. About Mozambique or Nicaragua, they knew the best part of fuck-all; but they didn't need to: if X was fighting a socialist government, X deserved their support. The author tells us the FCS libertarians had wide overseas contacts but does ...
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... authors haven't exposed much that is new, instead they have taken all the previous stories and strung them together to make a damning indictment of the CIA. All your favourite stories are in here, from Gary Webb's breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA's use of psychedelics, ex-Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and then, via a chapter on Afghanistan, back to the United States and the cocaine connections to Arkansas ...
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... 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 ...
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