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... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 513 - 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 287 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-11.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 43) Summer 2002 Last | Contents | Next Issue 43 The Conspirators: secrets of an Iran-Contra insider Al Martin Pray, Montana: National Liberty Press, 2001, $14.95, ISBN 0-97-10042-0 -X Alexander 'Al' Martin is a retired Lt. Commander in the US Navy, a former member of the Office of Naval Intelligence and a middle-ranking player in the thicket of scandals known as Iran-Contra. This might be the most startling book written about post-war American politics; and it might be a complete load of hooey ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 140 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-43.htm
... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 124 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-08.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: 121 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-03.htm
... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Feb 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue15/lob15-04.htm
... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 78 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-05.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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 72 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-23.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
... In keeping with the entrepreneurial spirit of David Stirling (that dates from the Long Range Desert Patrols during World War II) it was the 23rd Airborne Territorial SAS in Hereford that provided the main recruitment conduit for these state sanctioned covert operations. Again, the memoir of 'Tom Carew' would seem to confirm this. Outsourced state terrorism and the contras The link between British Special Forces and military privatisation partly entered the public domain in the Iran- Contra Affair. In 1983, Margaret Thatcher was returned to office with an increased majority only because of the Falklands' War. But victory in that war carried a price. Britain won the Falklands War because of signals intelligence provided by the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 07 Apr 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-armed-dangerous.pdf
