[…] Money Times appeared on the Net at the beginning of July. In its interview with Gary Webb, the San Jose Mercury News reporter who brought the CIA-contra- cocaine scandal to national attention two years ago, Webb reveals new information on the Mena Scandal, involving a secret-til-now FBI Organized Crime Drug Task Force into the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Hussein has ‘bedded hundreds of women and slaughters any who fail to satisfy him’. Fed a general of his to a pack of dogs. Snorts the ‘purest cocaine and smokes heroin’. The reported death of Abu Nidal in August became the peg for two different pieces of disinformation. The first was in The Sunday […]
[…] Falangist Party in Lebanon. (114) In June 1977, as we have already noted, Orlando Bosch’s daughter and son-in-law were arrested for attempting to smuggle $200,000 worth of cocaine. There are, moreover, grounds for suspecting an organised connection between the criminal activities of the European neo-fascists and the Cuban exiles. Both Kay and Spaggiari visited […]
[…] American population to overcome ‘the Vietnam syndrome’; getting proxies to do the killing for them; getting permission for dope dealers who contributed to the Contras to deal cocaine in America; and covertly selling arms to raise the money denied by Congress. As an after-thought attempts were made to elaborate a ‘doctrine’ for this activity […]
[…] accomplices Alvin Ross Diaz and Guillermo Novo Sampol were arrested by Miami police in 1978 with a large plastic bag of white powder which they identified as cocaine. (Branch and Propper, p529). Miami police wished to hold the pair on drug charges, but the FBI intervened. In 1976 CIA Director George Bush and nameless […]
[…] 26 July 1984). All of which may well be true, but its credibility isn’t helped by the DEA also accusing the Nicaraguan government of involvement in the cocaine trade. The accusation is based on ‘evidence’ said to have been collected during continuing US interest in Robert Vesco, who DEA is apparently saying, helped finance […]
[…] publications and reports (www.cia.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html) include 1998 reports ‘regarding allegations (specifically in the San Jose Mercury News by Gary Webb) of connections between CIA and the Contras in cocaine trafficking in the US’ (www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html) In November 2000 over 16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship and Washington’s role in the overthrow of Allende were […]
[…] is we who will control the (EM) spectrum. We know its value.’ Political Investigations http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/politics.html Series of articles from the San Jose Mercury News, detailing links between cocaine traffickers and the Nicaraguan contra network, plus links, including Covert Operations (Iran/contra; INSLAW affair; BNL affair – arming of Iraq by western nations including US, Britain, […]
