Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] condoned drug smuggling and other criminal activities to further its Central America policy. Among other things, the panel sought to determine if top leaders of the Colombian cocaine cartel escaped arrest because the much ballyhooed “war on drugs” took a back seat to a covert operation designed to discredit the Nicaraguan government – this […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] revving-up of the US v Saddam event earlier in 1998, the ST ran a front page story, under the ‘Insight’ imprint, headlined, ‘Saddam’s son made millions shipping cocaine to Britain’. The story refers to an ‘alleged Iraqi plot to flood Britain and Europe with the drug’. And the source? ‘Lawyers for a high-ranking Iraqi […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] section from Wallace’s 1974 jottings for the aborted operation ‘Clockwork Orange 2’. Can Politicians Be Trusted? N. St. Stevas: homosexual – boyfriend of Elton John’s manager – cocaine user at parties Homosexual relationships – Heath, Van Straubenzee, St. John Stevas, Thorpe Child prostitution: William McGrath, Van Straubenzee, Clifford Smyth Wilson’s affair with Marcia Williams […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] theory beyond a complex form of real-world Cluedo, into a genuinely useful forum for political analysis. His thesis is a development from two other books of his: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America;(2) and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.(3) Scott effectively had the […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] under Reagan and Casey and the fabrication of the ‘Soviets support for terrorism’ thesis. The role of the Moonies and their money through the 1980s. Iran-Contra CIA- cocaine The post-Watergate creation by the Republican right-wing of an alternative media and ‘counter-establishment’ essentially a set of psy-war outfits to attack the Democrats and inhibit […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] power, pure and simple. Small wonder that people sometimes feel like cheating. Consider: in 2000 a report was published that alleged that cannabis was as addictive as cocaine. In fact, it claimed that this had been proven scientifically, in the face of years of evidence to the contrary. How had this remarkable result been […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] name the Bay of Pigs veteran who, in its words, “was part of the group and who was accused by the Federal authorities of being a large cocaine smuggler was killed in a gun battle with the Miami police”. (29) This was Juan Restoy, arrested in June 1970 as part of the Justice Department’s […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] indictment of the CIA. All your favourite stories are in here, from Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA’s use of psychedelics, ex-Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and then, via a chapter […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] around in that field. And lo and behold, about six months later, Customs just happened to pick his bags to search and just happened to find some cocaine and some porno mags in them. Cue media interest; cue end of Tom Spencer’s political career. There is one MP in the Commons who is having […]