[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
