Gary Webb Seven Stories Press, USA, $24.95 This appeared in San Francisco Chronicle on June 28, 1998. The Chronicle edited out a section… This has been restored and is in italics. What the Chronicle found too sensitive to publish is rather interesting – editor. Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the … Read more
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs Douglas Valentine London/New York: Verso, 2004, h/back, £20 This comes garlanded with praise from Jim Hougan and Anthony Summers. The praise is justified: this is, as Hougan says, ‘a ground-breaking work of investigative reporting’; and it is, as Summers says, […]
[…] was linked to the American Mafia, notably the Gambino Brothers, who are into heroin.(4) Gelli had connections with the Bolivian Army, which is in control of the drugs traffic there. (5) Gelli and Calvi were in P2. Some of the heroin shipped out by the Turkish/Bulgarian network was going to the US via the […]
[…] Home Office, annual seizures of 20,000 tabs means that ‘the use of LSD in Britain was restricted to a small number of people’. Lee approached the Central Drugs Intelligence Unit (CDIU), who ‘denied having any information which showed LSD to be a problem’. It would take Lee another three years to fully discover that […]
[…] Central America policy. Among other things, the panel sought to determine if top leaders of the Colombian cocaine cartel escaped arrest because the much ballyhooed “war on drugs” took a back seat to a covert operation designed to discredit the Nicaraguan government – this at a time when the administration was seeking additional aid […]
[…] control research was transferred to the Office of Research and Development (ORD): project cryptonyms remain unrevealed. (20) What was studied? Everything — including hypnosis, conditioning, sensory deprivation, drugs, religious cults, microwaves, psycho-surgery, brain implants, and even ESP. When MKULTRA leaked to the public during the great CIA investigations of the 1970s, public attention focused […]
Volume 20 of Research in Political Economy, edited by Paul Zarembka, titled ‘Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists,’ (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration’s foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott’s essay is : ‘The United States since … Read more
Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair London:Verso, 1999, £10 Much has been written about the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the global drugs trade but this is the first book that actually brings it all together in one place. The authors haven’t exposed much that is new, instead they have taken […]
[…] through his friendship with Casillo, second-in-command to Cutullo, and another leading member, Giardili. (Parapolitics/Intelligence 1984/85) In 1980 and 81, under SISMI head Guiseppe Santovito (arrested for arms- drugs traffic between Italy and the Middle East), Musumeci formed a ‘parallel SISMI’, or ‘Super S’, which, according to some reports (Parapolitics/Intelligence XII 1984-’85) included Pazienza, member […]
[…] corrupt, drug-linked forces in other parts of the world.’ The peculiar American twist to this sequence of events has been the accompanying noisy, utterly futile, ‘wars’ on drugs. As Edward Herman’s book (reviewed in this issue) would have it, this is beyond hypocrisy. It’s rather as if the Nazis had simultaneously spent tens of […]
