[…] Falangist Party in Lebanon. (114) In June 1977, as we have already noted, Orlando Bosch’s daughter and son-in-law were arrested for attempting to smuggle $200,000 worth of cocaine. There are, moreover, grounds for suspecting an organised connection between the criminal activities of the European neo-fascists and the Cuban exiles. Both Kay and Spaggiari visited […]
[…] American population to overcome ‘the Vietnam syndrome’; getting proxies to do the killing for them; getting permission for dope dealers who contributed to the Contras to deal cocaine in America; and covertly selling arms to raise the money denied by Congress. As an after-thought attempts were made to elaborate a ‘doctrine’ for this activity […]
[…] accomplices Alvin Ross Diaz and Guillermo Novo Sampol were arrested by Miami police in 1978 with a large plastic bag of white powder which they identified as cocaine. (Branch and Propper, p529). Miami police wished to hold the pair on drug charges, but the FBI intervened. In 1976 CIA Director George Bush and nameless […]
[…] 26 July 1984). All of which may well be true, but its credibility isn’t helped by the DEA also accusing the Nicaraguan government of involvement in the cocaine trade. The accusation is based on ‘evidence’ said to have been collected during continuing US interest in Robert Vesco, who DEA is apparently saying, helped finance […]
[…] publications and reports (www.cia.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html) include 1998 reports ‘regarding allegations (specifically in the San Jose Mercury News by Gary Webb) of connections between CIA and the Contras in cocaine trafficking in the US’ (www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html) In November 2000 over 16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship and Washington’s role in the overthrow of Allende were […]
[…] is we who will control the (EM) spectrum. We know its value.’ Political Investigations http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/politics.html Series of articles from the San Jose Mercury News, detailing links between cocaine traffickers and the Nicaraguan contra network, plus links, including Covert Operations (Iran/contra; INSLAW affair; BNL affair – arming of Iraq by western nations including US, Britain, […]
[…] 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, […]
[PDF file]: […] few students of the drug trade that Noriega’s downfall, like that of many bigger traffickers before and after, did nothing to hold back the rising tide of cocaine that flowed north from the Andean nations. What may be more surprising was Washington’s willingness to replace Noriega with civilian leaders who had an unambiguous (if […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] US government, this is difficult to 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 […]
