Search Results for: Contras
The view from the bridge
[…] on other similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when you leave […]
The view from the bridge
[…] Attorney Stanley Marcus and DEA chief Peter Gruden in Miami said, they had no evidence implicating any Nicaraguan official 2 Gary Webb, Dark alliance: the CIA, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion, p. 264; this is on-line. Page 40 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 besides Vaughn. Nevertheless, the White House exploited the Seal case […]
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne
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A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11
[PDF file]: […] was to tell the FBI about the Nicaraguan drug lord who picked up the dinner tab at the fundraiser in San Francisco L had arranged for the Contras after which L got a death threat over the phone while waiting in Senator Kerry’s outer office for a secret rendez-vous) and of what N told […]
The CIA as Organised Crime How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine
Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate
Holding Pattern
[PDF file]: […] friend of the Bush family ever since working with George HW Bush during the Reagan administration, when Bandar ended up as the middle-man in paying the Nicaraguan contras. Prince Bandar has in fact been in and out of the shadows around various ‘deep events’ ever since, and his covert CV is a lengthy one.2 […]
Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years
[PDF file]: […] Major Walker, as he was linked to Oliver North’s highly questionable activities in Central America. Walker had allowed KMS to provide arms and general assistance to the Contras, as well as some rather harsh ‘hands-on’ assistance in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua.2 2 The media attention that this episode received prompted Walker and his colleague […]