[PDF file]: […] the Israel lobby today. It is probably no accident that both KMT-ruled Formosa and Israel are substantial hubs for the whole range of offshore illicit traffic, whether drugs, weapons or money itself. Like the KMT, Israel enjoys the more or less unconditional support of the US regime, especially its intelligence community, which maintains close […]
[PDF file]: […] This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar’s airplanes and obtained film of Escobar […]
[…] 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 on drugs’ is one of America’s leading domestic problems, the CIA has played a significant role in creating it. Pitzer was present at the autopsy of President Kennedy. […]
[PDF file]: […] the clubs!’ – or generally thrashing the culture – ‘Sharp street kids love Acid music. . . . but they’re saying a resounding NO to the daft drugs that plague the scene.’ Bushell and Sky then proceeded to show exactly how out of touch they were with the phenomenon by providing a guide to […]
[PDF file]: […] For the Right, the psychedelic counter-culture undermined ‘traditional values’ such as patriarchy, nationalism and subservience to authority; for elements of the Left, the 1960s hedonism of ‘Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll’ served as a distraction from political struggle and party discipline. To flesh out the theory, extra villains have been thrown in: Satanists, […]
[…] 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 on drugs’ is one of America’s leading domestic problems, the CIA has played a significant role in creating it. But this subject is missing. Not a word. Cocaine […]
[PDF file]: […] mob hit. Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (South End […]
[…] the police called it an act of ‘good faith’. The next day he was taken to Leeds. Under further interrogation, under stress, possibly under the influence of drugs, with threats by the police to charge his wife and frame his oldest son, he signed blank sheets of paper, on which his ‘confessions’ were later […]
[PDF file]: […] the police called it an act of ‘good faith’. The next day he was taken to Leeds. Under further interrogation, under stress, possibly under the influence of drugs, with threats by the police to charge his wife and frame his oldest son, he signed blank sheets of paper, on which his ‘confessions’ were later […]
