Operation Julie revisited: the strange career of Ron Stark, parapolitical alchemist

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] lawyer in Paris, Sam Goekjian, who had drawn up the charters for Stark’s front companies, was investigated by IRS agents and asked about Stark’s BEL connections. The DEA, who had just rolled-up much of the BEL network in the US, organised a follow-up raid on Stark’s Belgian laboratory on the campus of Louvain le […]

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In Brief. Libya. Syria and the Gulf oil war. Lester Coleman

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] one of its main roles is to monitor the clandestine activity of other US government agencies. Coleman’s DIA job was to spy on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which operated out of a base in Cyprus. Coleman alleges that the DEA is supervising, and the DIA is manipulating, the drugs and arms trafficking which […]

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The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] export for Russian drugs, its place being taken by the Black Sea oil port of Novorossiysk. Within a year of the troops’ arrival, by 2000, according to DEA statistics, Afghan heroin accounted for almost 20 percent of the heroin seized in the United States – nearly double the percentage taken four years earlier. Much […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the Soviet bloc, has been revealed in participant John P. C. Matthews, ‘The West’s Secret Marshall Plan for the Mind’.(4) Douglas Valentine’s ‘How the CIA Infiltrated the DEA’, is a self-explanatory trailer for his forthcoming book on the subject.(5) A list of Valentine’s published writ-ing is to be found at Russell’s story Roderick Russell, […]

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Justice Delayed

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] back as defendants in the case. Regardless of how that motion turns out, the case against Dr Gottlieb should go to a jury soon. According to the DEA official (who has requested anonymity) who conducted the US Government’s 1978 Victims Task Force investigation into LSD testing on unwitting American citizens, the combination of the […]

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Letter from America

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] familiar scenario – guns went out to the contras and drugs came back to the United States. The chief smuggler was Barry Seal, a swashbuckling criminal turned DEA informant and CIA asset. Arkansas Governor Clinton did nothing to shut down Seal’s drug flights into Mena. To the contrary: Compromised asserts that the future president […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] Mr Hunt, “in the way where hundreds of Cubans have been helping in Africa, in Vietnam and in other areas of the world.” 38 Domestic Repression and DEA Narcotics Enforcement All this should be very disturbing. Liddy’s own original plans for Operation Diamond, after it moved from the cover of White House narcotics enforcement […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] – and that some went on to prosper under the new government that Washington I use the term ‘cartel’ loosely, as it has been used by the DEA and the media, to refer to close associates of Pablo Escobar, the Ochoa family, and José Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha (Medellín Cartel), and of Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] have long and varied interactions in the life of the two organisations and these personalities emerged at critical phases in the history of both the FBN and DEA. It is necessary to concentrate on this fabric to grasp some of the ways in which the national security system consists of personnel overlaps and not […]

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[…] in the months before 9/11. Groups of young Israelis – nearly 200 in total, apparently – pretending to be selling art works, approached numerous Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials and offices. Shea pointed out that some of these Israeli ‘art students’ were living close to the al-Qaeda members who did 9/11 and concluded that […]

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