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... doctorate in Political Science from McGill University. After four years as a diplomat in the Canadian Foreign Service I taught for thirty-three years at the University of California, Berkeley. Four of my books have dealt with the problem of drug-traffickers who owe their prominence and protection to their involvement with CIA-backed covert operations. The most relevant of these books is Cocaine Politics, co-authored with Jonathan Marshall and published in 1991 by the University of California Press. (Four of the chapters dealt with the subject of Contras and drug-trafficking, including the California network of Norwin Meneses.)(1) At various times I have taken leave from teaching to conduct full-time research into covert politics. In 1970 I ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 278 - 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: 125 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-11.htm
... with drug traffickers on four continents. This essay will attempt to say something, yet again, both about the major media and about some of the many 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 124 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-08.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: 102 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-08.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 22) November 1991 Last| Contents| Next Issue 22 Lundy: The Destruction of Scotland Yard's Finest Detective Martin Short Grafton, London, 1991 Scotland Yard's Cocaine Connection Andrew Jennings, Paul Lashmar and Vyv Simson Arrow, London, 1991 The sixties media guru Marshall McLuhan is nowadays generally derided as a fraud.I suspect that most people would found it difficult to accept his statement that television is not a visual medium. However, the more one thinks about that bizarre idea the more its truth is revealed. Watch any documentary or news item on television and you will be hard pressed to find a visual image that is not signposted by dialogue. Television ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 97 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-15.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 24) December 1992 Last| Contents| Next Issue 24 Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall University of California Press, Cambridge (UK) 1991, £8.95. The basic rule of politics, domestic and international is that my enemy's enemy is my friend. That rule ensured that the CIA adopted as allies the opium growers of the Golden Triangle in the 1960s and 70s, and the heroin producing mujahadeen of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 80s. The ostensible 'enemy' was communism in one guise or another. But if you look at the destruction wreaked on the American cities by ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 76 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-16.htm
... having collaborated with the AAA in the murder of two Cuban diplomats as late as August 1976. (66) It is quite possible that this collaboration was facilitated through the international narcotics traffic, since both Lopez Rega and Bosch, along with other high-level security figures in Latin America, have been accused of financing their anti-Communist activities in part through cocaine. (67) Bosch's daughter and son-in-law, Miriam and Carlos Rogers, were arrested in June 1977 on charges of smuggling cocaine, while his other son-in-law, Ruben Blinder, is said to be a member of the AAA. In 1975 a provincial Argentine investigation into a cocaine estancia near the Bolivian border, which was said (by ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 73 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-10.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 35) Summer 1998 Last| Contents| Next Issue 35 Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998, $15.95 pb ISBN 0-520-21449-8 This is a revised and updated version of this book which was first published in 1991 (and was reviewed in Lobster 24). Since that first edition we have had the great furore over the 1996 stories published in the San Jose Mercury News which claimed that cocaine being consumed in black areas of cities in California was being brought in by a network linked to the CIA via the war against Nicaragua. Quite why ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 70 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-15.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
... Exposed as Hoax On July 28 the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime, chaired by Congressman William Hughes (D-NJ), held the first of a series of hearings into whether Reagan administration officials condoned drug smuggling and other criminal activities to further its Central America policy. Among other things, the panel sought to determine if top leaders of the Colombian cocaine cartel escaped arrest because the much ballyhooed "war on drugs" took a back seat to a covert operation designed to discredit the Nicaraguan government- this at a time when the administration was seeking additional aid to the Contras. CBS Evening News (7-28-88)- the only major network to cover the proceedings- reported on the testimony of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 43 - 01 Nov 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue17/lob17-13.htm
