The Clash of the Icons

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 […]

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Drugging America: a Trojan Horse

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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 […]

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Letter from America

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] familiar scenario – guns went out to the contras and drugs came back to the United States. The chief smuggler was Barry Seal, a swashbuckling criminal turned DEA informant and CIA asset. Arkansas Governor Clinton did nothing to shut down Seal’s drug flights into Mena. To the contrary: Compromised asserts that the future president […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] export for Russian drugs, its place being taken by the Black Sea oil port of Novorossiysk. Within a year of the troops’ arrival, by 2000, according to DEA statistics, Afghan heroin accounted for almost 20 percent of the heroin seized in the United States – nearly double the percentage taken four years earlier. Much […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the Soviet bloc, has been revealed in participant John P. C. Matthews, ‘The West’s Secret Marshall Plan for the Mind’.(4) Douglas Valentine’s ‘How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA’, is a self-explanatory trailer for his forthcoming book on the subject.(5) A list of Valentine’s published writ-ing is to be found at Russell’s story Roderick Russell, […]

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Justice Delayed

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] back as defendants in the case. Regardless of how that motion turns out, the case against Dr Gottlieb should go to a jury soon. According to the DEA official (who has requested anonymity) who conducted the US Government’s 1978 Victims Task Force investigation into LSD testing on unwitting American citizens, the combination of the […]

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Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

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[PDF file]: […] Mr Hunt, “in the way where hundreds of Cubans have been helping in Africa, in Vietnam and in other areas of the world.” 38 Domestic Repression and DEA Narcotics Enforcement All this should be very disturbing. Liddy’s own original plans for Operation Diamond, after it moved from the cover of White House narcotics enforcement […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] – and that some went on to prosper under the new government that Washington I use the term ‘cartel’ loosely, as it has been used by the DEA and the media, to refer to close associates of Pablo Escobar, the Ochoa family, and José Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha (Medellín Cartel), and of Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] have long and varied interactions in the life of the two organisations and these personalities emerged at critical phases in the history of both the FBN and DEA. It is necessary to concentrate on this fabric to grasp some of the ways in which the national security system consists of personnel overlaps and not […]

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[…] in the months before 9/11. Groups of young Israelis – nearly 200 in total, apparently – pretending to be selling art works, approached numerous Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials and offices. Shea pointed out that some of these Israeli ‘art students’ were living close to the al-Qaeda members who did 9/11 and concluded that […]

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