[…] have dealt with the problem of drug-traffickers who owe their prominence and protection to their involvement with CIA-backed covert operations. The most relevant of these books is Cocaine Politics, co-authored with Jonathan Marshall and published in 1991 by the University of California Press. (Four of the chapters dealt with the subject of Contras and […]
[…] in public — of walking, in fact, directly into a popular firestorm. That evening, Deutch emphatically claimed that the CIA had no involvement whatsoever with the crack- cocaine epidemic that is battering South Central. It was a message Deutch’s audience wasn’t buying. This event and its aftermath are well worth reflecting upon. Unfortunately, the […]
Official: CIA does mean Cocaine Importing Agency after all 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 […]
Lundy: The Destruction of Scotland Yard’s Finest Detective Martin Short Grafton, London, 1991 Scotland Yard’s Cocaine Connection Andrew Jennings, Paul Lashmar and Vyv Simson Arrow, London, 1991 The sixties media guru Marshall McLuhan is nowadays generally derided as a fraud.I suspect that most people would found it difficult to accept his statement that television […]
[…] Another important book from Parry, author of Trick or Treason about the so-called October Surprise. Parry has two major themes here. The first is the contra- cocaine story which he tried to research as it broke in the 1980s while employed by elements of the major media, PA and then Newsweek. The resistance […]
[…] account was published in the San Jose Mercury News. One sheriff’s department document reported that ‘the Blandon organization is believed to be moving hundreds of kilos of cocaine a month in the Southern California area.’ It added that ‘the money goes toward the purchase of arms to aid the “Contra” rebels fighting the civil […]
[…] in Lobster 24). Since that first edition we have had the great furore over the 1996 stories published in the San Jose Mercury News which claimed that cocaine being consumed in black areas of cities in California was being brought in by a network linked to the CIA via the war against Nicaragua. Quite […]
[…] regime. It was simplicity itself: planes flew from America carrying supplies for the CIA’s contra army camped along the Nicaraguan border, and flew back to America carrying cocaine. The authors note in their preface to this second edition, ‘Our conclusion remains that the first target of an effective drug strategy should be Washington itself, […]
[…] traffic, since both Lopez Rega and Bosch, along with other high-level security figures in Latin America, have been accused of financing their anti-Communist activities in part through cocaine. (67) Bosch’s daughter and son-in-law, Miriam and Carlos Rogers, were arrested in June 1977 on charges of smuggling cocaine, while his other son-in-law, Ruben Blinder, is […]
[…] for drug money after being indicted in 1988 in Tampa, Florida, following a US Customs drug sting operation. In Latin America, its account holders included billionaire Medellin cocaine lord Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha and Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega; in Asia its clients allegedly included the world’s biggest heroin dealer, Khun Sa, and corrupt Pakistani […]
