[…] prison in August 1995 after having served a sentence for theft. While in prison he had become friends with John Elder, who was serving 5 years for cocaine trafficking. After release, Dean and his wife became owners of Spectrum Printing and Mailing (the funding for this remains a mystery) and in 2000 sold this […]
[…] and ultimately to drug airlines and mob-controlled banks, is the story that I first explored in The War Conspiracy and again (with respect to the Contras) in Cocaine Politics….essentially the same lobbies and their milieus, with oil prominent at the overt level and mob and drug links at the deeper covert level, play recurring […]
[…] satellites.’ The table of contents and information on obtaining this is at < http://ourworld.compuserve. com/homepages/ PZarembka/volume20.htm > Gary Webb, the American journalist whose series on the CIA- cocaine links kicked off a major political storm (and got him fired), has placed his original articles at < http://home.attbi.com/~gary.webb/wsb/ index.html > www.nthposition.com is ‘An on-line magazine […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] few students of the drug trade that Noriega’s downfall, like that of many bigger traffickers before and after, did nothing to hold back the rising tide of cocaine that flowed north from the Andean nations. What may be more surprising was Washington’s willingness to replace Noriega with civilian leaders who had an unambiguous (if […]
[PDF file]: […] US government, this is difficult to evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to […]
[…] Page 39 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to […]
