Lobster Issue 28 (December 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[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 […]