Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] ties between federal drug enforcement authorities and various arms of US intelligence, including the CIA. Like the Federal Bureau of Narcotics before it, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) enjoys expertise in undercover operations and special access to foreign informants and government officials. Other US intelligence services have long coveted, and succeeded in recruiting, those […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] that when right-wing CIA assets are formally ‘disposed of’, their potential usefulness to other employers should not be diminished. Take for example, the Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA) itself which now employs somewhere between 50 and 100 CIA agents in addition to Conein and his twelve assassins. Of all the ‘White House horrors’ to […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] notable traffickers linked to KINTEX are Turkish nationals Abuzer Ugurlu, Bekir Celenk, and Mustafa Kisacik, members of the ‘Turkish Mafia’ ‘. (212) This same Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) report goes on to say that some of these Turkish traffickers and representatives of KINTEX ‘have also been named as associates of members of the right-wing […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] government as major narcotics traffickers. This was the case with Blandon’s supplier, Norwin Meneses, a highly publicized Contra supporter who had been listed as a trafficker in DEA records since the 1970s. Officials in at least four law enforcement agencies have confirmed that Meneses was untouchable in this country in the era of Contra […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] he saw the effects of drugs on U.S. troops. By 1975 he was a Texas cop, later a detective working drug cases. In 1980, Castillo joined the DEA and worked the streets of New York. He worked in Peru in 1984-1985, and Guatemala from 1985-1990. While stationed in Guatemala, Castillo was the DEA agent […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] inescapably a political matter, especially in those areas of covert intelligence and operations which, up to now, have been concerns of the CIA. It is undeniable that DEA has picked up at least one former CIA operation – that of training and equipping foreign police forces – after this was terminated by Congress in […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of other states. But the effect of these measures will be frustrated as long as new agencies – such as the DEA – are allowed to pick up the training and assassination tasks denied to CIA; as long as the U.S.-financed lobbies of client states (such as the […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] (42) Scott Camil himself, after being acquitted along with the other VVAW defendants, was reindicted after being first set up and then shot and almost killed by DEA narcotics agents. (The national establishment media, whose attention helped expose the false government testimony by the Nixon administration at the first trial, showed little interest in […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] one of its main roles is to monitor the clandestine activity of other US government agencies. Coleman’s DIA job was to spy on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operated out of a base in Cyprus. Coleman alleges that the DEA is supervising, and the DIA is manipulating, the drugs and arms trafficking which […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] using papers forged for him in Argentina. One other aspect of the confusing jigsaw surrounding the Pope shooting is the claim by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) that KINTEX, the Bulgarian state trading agency and alleged cover for Bulgarian intelligence, has been in the drugs/guns business for at least 14 years. DEA claims […]
