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THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior
[PDF file]: […] in the 1980s, Spence – who claimed links with the CIA – was exposed as a blackmailer, organising parties for important people where they were supplied with drugs and prostitutes, including trafficked children. One of his associates, Lawrence King, a rising figure in Reagan’s Republican Party, was also involved. The little media attention that […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] which was kicking around as a summary of some Brexiteers’ aspirations: a low tax, authoritarian society – Singapore with better golf courses and easier access to the drugs of choice – fit for the rich to live and be serviced in. Lawson provides a link to maps of the proposed freeports in the UK.24 […]
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Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
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Swedish echoes
[PDF file]: […] Fire: My Own Story (London: W. H. Allen, 1989), an account by Captain Simon Hayward, late of Her Majesty’s Life Guards, of being caught up in a drugs bust in the city of Linköping in southern Sweden. In March of 1987 Captain Hayward was arrested when he was found to be driving a car […]
A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS could make any impact on the world drugs trade when the U.S. agencies had failed with hundreds of times the resources of SIS, a ‘man from the FO replied: Ah yes, but you have […]