[…] on other similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when you leave […]
[…] Attorney Stanley Marcus and DEA chief Peter Gruden in Miami said, they had no evidence implicating any Nicaraguan official 2 Gary Webb, Dark alliance: the CIA, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion, p. 264; this is on-line. Page 40 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 besides Vaughn. Nevertheless, the White House exploited the Seal case […]
[PDF file]: […] recalled the libertarian right which was then a force in the Federation of Conservative Students – all that macho posturing in support of the Cold War, the Contras in Nicaragua and the South African government against the ANC. How many of them knew they were part of psy-ops operations being run by South African […]
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[PDF file]: […] was to tell the FBI about the Nicaraguan drug lord who picked up the dinner tab at the fundraiser in San Francisco L had arranged for the Contras after which L got a death threat over the phone while waiting in Senator Kerry’s outer office for a secret rendez-vous) and of what N told […]
[PDF file]: […] friend of the Bush family ever since working with George HW Bush during the Reagan administration, when Bandar ended up as the middle-man in paying the Nicaraguan contras. Prince Bandar has in fact been in and out of the shadows around various ‘deep events’ ever since, and his covert CV is a lengthy one.2 […]
[PDF file]: […] Major Walker, as he was linked to Oliver North’s highly questionable activities in Central America. Walker had allowed KMS to provide arms and general assistance to the Contras, as well as some rather harsh ‘hands-on’ assistance in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua.2 2 The media attention that this episode received prompted Walker and his colleague […]
