Cocaine Politics

Informationen zum Autor Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California! Berkeley! and the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (California! 1993). Scott is also a poet: in 2002! his "Seculum" trilogy won a Lannan Literary Award. Jonathan Marshall is the Economics Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War (California! 1995). Klappentext "Tells the sordid story of how elements of our own government went to work with narcotics traffickers, and then fought to suppress the truth about what they had done."—Jonathan Winer, Counsel, Kerry Subcommittee on Terrorism and Narcotics Zusammenfassung Shows that under the cover of national security and covert operations, the US government has repeatedly collaborated with and protected major international drug traffickers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the 1998 Paperback Edition Preface to the 1992 Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Kerry Report: The Truth but Not the Whole Truth PART I RIGHT-WING NARCOTERRORISM! THE CIA! AND THE CONTRAS 2 The CIA and Right-Wing Narcoterrorism in Latin America 3 Bananas! Cocaine! and Military Plots in Honduras 4 Noriega and the Contras: Guns! Drugs! and the Harari Network 5 The International Cali Connection and the United States 6 The Contra Drug Connections in Costa Rica PART II EXPOSURE AND COVER-UP 7 Jack Terrell Reveals the Contra-Drug Connection 8 North Moves to Silence Terrell 9 How the Justice Department Tried to Block the Drug Inquiry 10 Covert Operations and the Perversion of Drug Enforcement 11 The Media and the Contra Drug Issue 12 Conclusion Notes Names and Organizations Index ...

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• Autori: J Marshall, Jonathan Marshall, Marshall Jonathan, P Scott, Peter Dale Scott, Scott Peter Dale
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.01.1998
• EAN: 9780520214491
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21449-1
• Pagine: 279
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, United States of America, USA, Criminal investigation & detection, Criminal investigation and detection, Central / national / federal government, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime, Central government, Central America, Mexico and Central America