Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] Pollution Specialists, BCM Pulocon, WCI V6XX. Tel 01 405 0463/4.’ The company turned out to be largely a front for Thomas’s endeavours with Solomon to make synthetic cocaine and THC in a laboratory. Neither Mason’s statement to the police on meeting Solomon and friends, nor the business card, figured at the Operation Julie trial, […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] are documented in Alfred
McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Brooklyn:
Lawrence Hill Books, 1991); Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1988) 1 A good example is the still-murky relationship between Florida lawyer […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] tent. Significantly, virtually all of them declined the request to actually campaign for Blair. No explanations were given, no secrets spilled (though Noel Gallagher joked about taking cocaine in a lavatory at No. 10). For whatever reason people like film-maker Danny Boyle and record company owner Alan McGee, both of whom had struggled through […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of a mob hit. Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] is no return.’116 * Jonathan Marshall is author or co-author of five books, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] team. This paid for accommodation, flying lessons and – in Mohammed Atta’s case, at least – a lengthy period boozing it up with a regular supply of cocaine, disobedience to strict Islamic commandments that Atta knew he would soon purge in his own martyrdom. The payments to the hijackers began after they settled in […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] asked her about security at the World Trade Centre.8 After listing many other incidents in which the cocktailloving Muslim extremist who lived with a stripper and snorted cocaine attracted attention to himself, MacQueen says: ‘Mohamed Atta was certainly no secretive al-Qaeda leader but a man laying down a trail we were supposed to follow….The […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] concentrated on the sale of weapon sales to Iran, to fund the Contras, allegedly in exchange for hostage releases in Lebanon, but played down the flood of cocaine coming openly into the US through Fort Lauderdale on US military flights to finance the terrorist campaign of the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua. There is no […]