[…] 26 July 1984). All of which may well be true, but its credibility isn’t helped by the DEA also accusing the Nicaraguan government of involvement in the cocaine trade. The accusation is based on ‘evidence’ said to have been collected during continuing US interest in Robert Vesco, who DEA is apparently saying, helped finance […]
[…] Hussein has ‘bedded hundreds of women and slaughters any who fail to satisfy him’. Fed a general of his to a pack of dogs. Snorts the ‘purest cocaine and smokes heroin’. The reported death of Abu Nidal in August became the peg for two different pieces of disinformation. The first was in The Sunday […]
[…] American population to overcome ‘the Vietnam syndrome’; getting proxies to do the killing for them; getting permission for dope dealers who contributed to the Contras to deal cocaine in America; and covertly selling arms to raise the money denied by Congress. As an after-thought attempts were made to elaborate a ‘doctrine’ for this activity […]
[PDF file]: […] few students of the drug trade that Noriega’s downfall, like that of many bigger traffickers before and after, did nothing to hold back the rising tide of cocaine that flowed north from the Andean nations. What may be more surprising was Washington’s willingness to replace Noriega with civilian leaders who had an unambiguous (if […]
[PDF file]: […] accomplices Alvin Ross Diaz and Guillermo Novo Sampol were arrested by Miami police in 1978 with a large plastic bag of white powder which they identified as cocaine. (Branch and Propper p. 529). Miami police wished to hold the pair on drug charges, but the FBI intervened. In 1976 CIA Director George Bush and […]
[PDF file]: […] US government, this is difficult to evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to […]
[…] Page 39 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to […]
[…] of a huge section of Portugal’s civil society at being swept along in the holy hunt for today’s witches. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine and Air America are not in the index. Indeed, the ghastly series of atrocities that was US foreign policy in the 1980s in Central America in […]
[…] In the 1980s the CIA got permission from the US Attorney General in to allow contributors to the privately-funded war against the government of Nicaragua to import cocaine into the US. For a minute fraction of their monthly earnings, cocaine dealers got a ‘get out of jail’ card from Uncle Sam. If the ‘war […]
[PDF file]: […] of a huge section of Portugal’s civil society at being swept along in the holy hunt for today’s witches. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine and Air America are not in the index. Indeed, the ghastly series of atrocities that was US foreign policy in the 1980s in Central America in […]
