[…] a Mohammed Atta who doesn’t fit our idea of an Islamist terrorist: a party animal, was this Atta, living the single life in Florida, with lots of cocaine. There is the curious tale of the $100,000 apparently wired to Atta by the head of Pakistan’s intelligence service (ISI). How reliable is this story? The […]
[…] occasional generosity of its readers. Notes on Contributors Peter Dale Scott teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley. He has just finished a new book, Cocaine Politics. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales. He is the co-author of Modernization Frustrated (Unwin Hyman, London 1988) and is currently working on […]
[…] out of Britain was the section about BCCI. Unger adds to the drug-dealing, money-laundering, and torturer-hiring history of BCCI, and right now the Bank of Crooks and Cocaine International’s creditors are suing the Bank of England for its total failure to regulate the gangsters’ bank. It could be that something in this BCCI section […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 p. 529). Miami police wished to hold the pair on drug charges, but the FBI intervened. In 1976 CIA Director George Bush and […]
[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 […]
[…] 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]: […] of a huge section of Portugal’s civil society at being swept along in the holy hunt for today’s witches. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine and Air America are not in the index. Indeed, the ghastly series of atrocities that was US foreign policy in the 1980s in Central America in […]
[…] of a huge section of Portugal’s civil society at being swept along in the holy hunt for today’s witches. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine and Air America are not in the index. Indeed, the ghastly series of atrocities that was US foreign policy in the 1980s in Central America in […]
[…] In the 1980s the CIA got permission from the US Attorney General in to allow contributors to the privately-funded war against the government of Nicaragua to import cocaine into the US. For a minute fraction of their monthly earnings, cocaine dealers got a ‘get out of jail’ card from Uncle Sam. If the ‘war […]
