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... 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 278 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-07.htm
... privilege. And privilege it was. The post-Cold-War world had become so threatening to the CIA that Deutch was taking the unprecedented step of showing up in public -- of walking, in fact, directly into a popular firestorm. That evening, Deutch emphatically claimed that the CIA had no involvement whatsoever with the crack-cocaine epidemic that is battering South Central. It was a message Deutch's audience wasn't buying. This event and its aftermath are well worth reflecting upon. Unfortunately, the defense of Deutch and his agency by major U.S . media has proved far less illuminating than the narrow and ahistorical way these same media have defined and framed the relevant ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 133 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-08.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: 125 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-11.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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 122 - 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 ...
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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 96 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/lob24-16.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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 88 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-15.htm
... 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 ...
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 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
... Given the level of disinformation produced against the Sandinistas by the US government, this is difficult to 1 The Gow memorandum can be read at <www.margaretthatcher.org>. Page 39 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 evaluate without reading the local media, which I can't do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. 'Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar's airplanes and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 47 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
