Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] “Conviction of the Libyans was very important because they had to cover up the truth,” Mr Aviv told The Scotsman. “America allowed a civilian airline to run drugs and risk innocent people. That looks very, very bad.“‘ Not that officially-sanctioned heroin smuggling is only done by those nasty Americans. In March the Guardian reported […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] Taylor The investigation into Kevin Taylor was the means to ensnare Stalker. It was led by a shadowy department of the Greater Manchester Police known as the Drugs Intelligence Unit (DIU) which was both comical in its incompetence and sinister in its uncontrolled ‘cowboy’ operations. The DIU’s ‘Operation Kalooki’ targetted Stalker as ‘FEB’, probably […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From the … Read more
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Publications (MOCAT)’) US General Accounting Office http://www.gao.gov Includes a facility to search for GAO reports US Food and Drug Administration http://www.fda.gov Initial menu includes: FDA news, animal drugs, human drugs, cosmetics, foods, toxicology, medical devices and radiological health. The site also includes how to make a Freedom of Information Act request to the FDA, […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] with the Vietnamese mafia. President Bush tried to appoint him Ambassador to Japan (Congress said ‘no’), while militia poster boy ‘Bo’ Gritz accused him publicly of trafficking drugs in South East Asia. Gritz and Perot were very thick for a while (Gritz claims Perot offered to pay him to assassinate Colombian drug dealers in […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] journalist Peter Brewton, ended up in the hands of the CIA and the Mafia. The press has also (mostly) steered clear of allegations that the CIA ran drugs and weapons through the small airstrip at Mena, Arkansas. For this is another bipartisan scandal which forces us to examine not just then governor Clinton, who […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] of what Michael Foot used to call the forgers’ gazette, to portray itself as the bastion of our civil liberties against a tyrannical state. SIS goes into drugs (apparently) On 28 August Foreign Secretary Robin Cook announced, while on a tour of the Far East, that Britain’s ‘diplomatic, aid, law enforcement and intelligence assets […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] in Latin America. But even the Ricord crackdown, so often recounted by Customs and BNDD flacks as proof of U.S. determination and success in the war against drugs, has been seen in other countries as an effort to gain control over the drug traffic, not to eliminate it. Even the respectable French newspaper Le […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] authorisation for the Conein assassination squad, with the staggering budget of $100 million in non-accountable funds: According to Krogh’s detailed ‘Outline of Discussion with the President on Drugs’, the President agreed to ‘forceful action in International trafficking of heroin in the host country’. Specifically the memorandum of the meeting noted, ‘it is anticipated that […]