[…] errors which are apparently in the original, ‘Casey’ alleges that former DCIA William Colby, ‘candidly informed me that he had pre-positioned more than one million pounds of cocaine in Panama between December 11, 1975 and April 1 1976……. Colby told me that profits from the pre-positioned cocaine would be laundered by Al Carone, the […]
[…] 1985 by journalists and scholars who sought a centralised repository for documentation obtained through FOIA. Online info includes Electronic Briefing Books (including the CIA and assassinations; Contras, cocaine and covert ops; the death of Che Guevara; India and Pakistan on the nuclear threshold; Tiananmen Square 1989; Guatemalan ‘death squad dossier’; Chile and the US […]
[…] Money Times appeared on the Net at the beginning of July. In its interview with Gary Webb, the San Jose Mercury News reporter who brought the CIA-contra- cocaine scandal to national attention two years ago, Webb reveals new information on the Mena Scandal, involving a secret-til-now FBI Organized Crime Drug Task Force into the […]
[…] life. Those who might doubt that the media could be so easily seduced need note the consequences of the Gary Webb ‘Dark Alliance’ series on the contra-CIA- cocaine story in the San Jose Mercury News. Having worked on this story for almost nine months, and witnessed numerous editors and journalists shy away from it, […]
[…] Britain. At least two significant armed revolutionary movements currently operate; and the country appears to have replaced Central America as the principal transhipment point for South American cocaine. The drug trade is often cited in connection with the spate of recent Mexican assassinations: from the cop gunned down on his doorstep to the Cardinal […]
Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]
[…] such claims as delusions. Eye magazine (see above) mentions an American woman claiming to have suffered implants, and in Leavenworth prison there is an American, a convicted cocaine dealer, John Gregory Lambros, who claims he was implanted while incarcerated in Brazil. Mr Lambros is a resourceful man and is churning out lots of documents […]
[…] has become Oliver North’s partner, and a principal player in a CIA conspiracy. Compromised also claims that George Bush’s sons had a direct involvement with the Medellin cocaine cartel, and that the CIA engineered the Hasenfus crash as a means to push Bush into Reagan’s chair prematurely. Interesting notions and worth following up. But […]
The assassinations of the 1960s A recently discovered sound recording of the assassination of Robert Kennedy shows that there was indeed a second shooter in the room. At least 13 shots were fired according to the analysis by Philip Van Praag, an expert in the ‘forensic analysis of magnetic media recordings’. Sirhan Sirhan’s gun could […]
[…] University Park, PA, USA.) Marshall is the former producer of the wonderful Parapolitics USA, and, most recently that I have seen, co-author with Peter Dale Scott of Cocaine Politics (University of California Press, 1991). This essay is typically dense parapolitics research, 20 pages, with 107 footnotes. Marshall shows how U.S. forces in the far […]
