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 […]
[…] “Conviction of the Libyans was very important because they had to cover up the truth,” Mr Aviv told The Scotsman. “America allowed a civilian airline to run drugs and risk innocent people. That looks very, very bad.“‘ Not that officially-sanctioned heroin smuggling is only done by those nasty Americans. In March the Guardian reported […]
[PDF file]: A BALLAD OF DRUGS AND 9/11 The truth shall make you free — CIA Slogan At the First Emperor’s Tomb the Chinese People’s Republic shows you a preliminary movie in which this monument of empire is seen through the eyes of peasants who rose up in revolt and smashed the terra cotta statues we […]
[…] journalist Peter Brewton, ended up in the hands of the CIA and the Mafia. The press has also (mostly) steered clear of allegations that the CIA ran drugs and weapons through the small airstrip at Mena, Arkansas. For this is another bipartisan scandal which forces us to examine not just then governor Clinton, who […]
[…] of what Michael Foot used to call the forgers’ gazette, to portray itself as the bastion of our civil liberties against a tyrannical state. SIS goes into drugs (apparently) On 28 August Foreign Secretary Robin Cook announced, while on a tour of the Far East, that Britain’s ‘diplomatic, aid, law enforcement and intelligence assets […]
[…] Taylor The investigation into Kevin Taylor was the means to ensnare Stalker. It was led by a shadowy department of the Greater Manchester Police known as the Drugs Intelligence Unit (DIU) which was both comical in its incompetence and sinister in its uncontrolled ‘cowboy’ operations. The DIU’s ‘Operation Kalooki’ targetted Stalker as ‘FEB’, probably […]
[…] Publications (MOCAT)’) US General Accounting Office http://www.gao.gov Includes a facility to search for GAO reports US Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov Initial menu includes: FDA news, animal drugs, human drugs, cosmetics, foods, toxicology, medical devices and radiological health. The site also includes how to make a Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA, […]
This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From the … Read more
On October 8 1998 the CIA’s Inspector General published a report on the recent CIA-cocaine controversy which – apparently – more or less copped the lot, acknowledging that the CIA had ignored drug smuggling by its Contra allies. (See for example The Independent 7 November 1998, ‘CIA turned a deliberate blind eye to Contras’ drug … Read more
[…] with the Vietnamese mafia. President Bush tried to appoint him Ambassador to Japan (Congress said ‘no’), while militia poster boy ‘Bo’ Gritz accused him publicly of trafficking drugs in South East Asia. Gritz and Perot were very thick for a while (Gritz claims Perot offered to pay him to assassinate Colombian drug dealers in […]
