[…] indictment of the CIA. All your favourite stories are in here, from Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA’s use of psychedelics, ex-Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and then, via a chapter […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] Britain. At least two significant armed revolutionary movements currently operate; and the country appears to have replaced Central America as the principal transhipment point for South American cocaine. The drug trade is often cited in connection with the spate of recent Mexican assassinations: from the cop gunned down on his doorstep to the Cardinal […]
Will the Illuminati arrive in black helicopters or Nazi-designed UFO’s? We are currently awash in dotty conspiracy theories. This is an interesting phenomenon even if the content of most of them is almost totally unreliable – at best. Some of this is the spin-off from the Oklahoma bombing and the media’s discovery of the militias. […]
[…] such claims as delusions. Eye magazine (see above) mentions an American woman claiming to have suffered implants, and in Leavenworth prison there is an American, a convicted cocaine dealer, John Gregory Lambros, who claims he was implanted while incarcerated in Brazil. Mr Lambros is a resourceful man and is churning out lots of documents […]
[…] has become Oliver North’s partner, and a principal player in a CIA conspiracy. Compromised also claims that George Bush’s sons had a direct involvement with the Medellin cocaine cartel, and that the CIA engineered the Hasenfus crash as a means to push Bush into Reagan’s chair prematurely. Interesting notions and worth following up. But […]
The assassinations of the 1960s A recently discovered sound recording of the assassination of Robert Kennedy shows that there was indeed a second shooter in the room. At least 13 shots were fired according to the analysis by Philip Van Praag, an expert in the ‘forensic analysis of magnetic media recordings’. Sirhan Sirhan’s gun could […]
[…] University Park, PA, USA.) Marshall is the former producer of the wonderful Parapolitics USA, and, most recently that I have seen, co-author with Peter Dale Scott of Cocaine Politics (University of California Press, 1991). This essay is typically dense parapolitics research, 20 pages, with 107 footnotes. Marshall shows how U.S. forces in the far […]
