LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Pollution Specialists, BCM Pulocon, WCI V6XX. Tel 01 405 0463/4.’ The company turned out to be largely a front for Thomas’s endeavours with Solomon to make synthetic cocaine and THC in a laboratory. Neither Mason’s statement to the police on meeting Solomon and friends, nor the business card, figured at the Operation Julie trial, […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] waiting in Senator Kerry’s outer office for a secret rendez-vous) and of what N told us — how Carlos was released from his hundred-year sentence to peddle cocaine to Russia his name in the Lafayette phone book Carlos Lehder It is a dilemma: Part of me needs to agree with the left that we […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] are documented in Alfred
 McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Brooklyn:
 Lawrence Hill Books, 1991); Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (Berkeley: University of
 California Press, 1988) 1 A good example is the still-murky relationship between Florida lawyer […]

Back to the future (again)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] tent. Significantly, virtually all of them declined the request to actually campaign for Blair. No explanations were given, no secrets spilled (though Noel Gallagher joked about taking cocaine in a lavatory at No. 10). For whatever reason people like film-maker Danny Boyle and record company owner Alan McGee, both of whom had struggled through […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of a mob hit. Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is no return.’116 * Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] team. This paid for accommodation, flying lessons and – in Mohammed Atta’s case, at least – a lengthy period boozing it up with a regular supply of cocaine, disobedience to strict Islamic commandments that Atta knew he would soon purge in his own martyrdom. The payments to the hijackers began after they settled in […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] asked her about security at the World Trade Centre.8 After listing many other incidents in which the cocktailloving Muslim extremist who lived with a stripper and snorted cocaine attracted attention to himself, MacQueen says: ‘Mohamed Atta was certainly no secretive al-Qaeda leader but a man laying down a trail we were supposed to follow….The […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] concentrated on the sale of weapon sales to Iran, to fund the Contras, allegedly in exchange for hostage releases in Lebanon, but played down the flood of cocaine coming openly into the US through Fort Lauderdale on US military flights to finance the terrorist campaign of the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua. There is no […]

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