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 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 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) £££
[…] 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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] Administration’s routine denials exposed. The Contras might not have received another nickel. Thus the Administration, instead of arresting Meneses and Blandon, protected them. Later, Blandon became a DEA informant, and apparently so did Meneses. Webb claims that in the mid-1980s, the flow of cocaine from Blandon to L.A. crack dealer Ricky Ross reached its […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] 69 pages. There will be nits to pick from almost everybody interested in the right, but this is a world directory, over 70 countries. The very i dea of it is breathtaking. AMOK: Third Despatch Table of Contents CONTROL 2 EXOTICA 17 SLEAZE 22 R&D 28 ORGONE 33 SENSORY DEPRIVATION 39 NEUROPOLITICS 47 MAYHEM […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] of 1972, Lou Conein became a consultant to the newly created Office of National Narcotics Intelligence (ONNI) at the Department of Justice. After the Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, was formed in July 1973, Conein became chief of a DEA special operations unit that in 1975 was investigated by the U.S. Senate for the dubious […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] bells on. At other times he seems to be suggesting that the entire agency has become infected with this. His evidence is chiefly the testimony of former DEA and CIA officials, contract personnel – or drug smugglers turned informants. Do you believe George Bush was a big wheel in a thirty year-old CIA operation […]
