Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] ties between federal drug enforcement authorities and various arms of US intelligence, including the CIA. Like the Federal Bureau of Narcotics before it, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) enjoys expertise in undercover operations and special access to foreign informants and government officials. Other US intelligence services have long coveted, and succeeded in recruiting, those […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] government as major narcotics traffickers. This was the case with Blandon’s supplier, Norwin Meneses, a highly publicized Contra supporter who had been listed as a trafficker in DEA records since the 1970s. Officials in at least four law enforcement agencies have confirmed that Meneses was untouchable in this country in the era of Contra […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] he saw the effects of drugs on U.S. troops. By 1975 he was a Texas cop, later a detective working drug cases. In 1980, Castillo joined the DEA and worked the streets of New York. He worked in Peru in 1984-1985, and Guatemala from 1985-1990. While stationed in Guatemala, Castillo was the DEA agent […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] Administration’s routine denials exposed. The Contras might not have received another nickel. Thus the Administration, instead of arresting Meneses and Blandon, protected them. Later, Blandon became a DEA informant, and apparently so did Meneses. Webb claims that in the mid-1980s, the flow of cocaine from Blandon to L.A. crack dealer Ricky Ross reached its […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] lawyer in Paris, Sam Goekjian, who had drawn up the charters for Stark’s front companies, was investigated by IRS agents and asked about Stark’s BEL connections. The DEA, who had just rolled-up much of the BEL network in the US, organised a follow-up raid on Stark’s Belgian laboratory on the campus of Louvain le […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] one of its main roles is to monitor the clandestine activity of other US government agencies. Coleman’s DIA job was to spy on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operated out of a base in Cyprus. Coleman alleges that the DEA is supervising, and the DIA is manipulating, the drugs and arms trafficking which […]