[…] summary. They describe the funding of the Contras without mentioning drugs, even when the CIA itself has admitted getting permission from the US Attorney General to ignore cocaine dealing in return for donations to the Contras. You get the picture. The ISC has written eight reports since its inception, as well as its annual […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] The other main heroin producer, Iran, was also an American ally. In later years Cuba and then Nicaragua were both described as prime movers in the Caribbean cocaine trade when it is obvious now, and was fairly clear then, that Cuban and Nicaraguan exiles were far more important in this trade. These errors were […]
[…] ‘Involvement……’ (note 207) p.60. For Western intelligence involvement in the drug trade see Kurger and McKoy. The recent involvement of CIA-connected Cuban exiles in the smuggling of cocaine into the US for the financial benefit of the Nicaraguan contras is only the latest in a long series of such operations. On this see, e.g., […]
[…] prison in August 1995 after having served a sentence for theft. While in prison he had become friends with John Elder, who was serving 5 years for cocaine trafficking. After release, Dean and his wife became owners of Spectrum Printing and Mailing (the funding for this remains a mystery) and in 2000 sold this […]
[…] earlier phases of the strategy of tension. These include Pierluigi Paglai of AN, famous for his later participation (along with Delle Chiaie) in the rightist Bolivian ‘ cocaine coup’ of 1980;(191) Marco Affatigato of ON, a suspect in the 1980 Bologna bombing;(192) Nazi-Maoists Freda, Mario Tuti and Claudio Mutti;(193) and Delle Chiaie himself. (194) […]
[…] and ultimately to drug airlines and mob-controlled banks, is the story that I first explored in The War Conspiracy and again (with respect to the Contras) in Cocaine Politics….essentially the same lobbies and their milieus, with oil prominent at the overt level and mob and drug links at the deeper covert level, play recurring […]
[…] republics and satellites.’ The table of contents and information on obtaining this is at < http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume20.htm > Gary Webb, the American journalist whose series on the CIA- cocaine links kicked off a major political storm (and got him fired), has placed his original articles at < http://home.attbi.com/~gary.webb/wsb/ index.html > www.nthposition.com is ‘An on-line magazine […]
