Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie - Inside the DIA

by Donald Goddard (Author), Lester K. Coleman (Author), Donald Goddard (Author), Lester K. Coleman (Author)

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  1993

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  Lester Knox Coleman is the first American citizen since the Vietnam War to seek political asylum in another country. Hounded by the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency and Middle East heroin traffickers, Coleman is a victim of the biggest international cover-up in modern times. In the spring of 1988, Coleman was on a mission for the world's most secretive and well-funded espionage agency - the Defence Intelligence Agency. Coleman had been ordered to spy on the DEA in Cyprus which, along with the CIA, was running a series of controlled deliveries of Lebanese heroin through the airports of Frankfurt and London en route to America. Coleman discovered that security of this sting operation had been breached and warned the American Embassy that a disaster was waiting to happen. It was ignored. Seven months later, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie. Among the dead was a DEA courier. Over the last four years Washington has ensured that the blame for the bombing rests with Libyan terrorists and negligent Pan Am officials. With Pan Am and their insurers fighting this version all the way, it was never likely that Coleman's experiences in Cyprus would go unnoticed. In 1991 America's state security apparatus - the octopus - made its move. Donald Goddard is the author of Joey , The Last Days of Dietrich Bonhoeffer , All Fall Down , Undercover and The Insider .

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.36

  What really happened at Lockerbie? Lester Coleman, the first American citizen since Vietnam to seek political asylum in another country, believes he knows the answer - and it differs considerably from the official view that the Libyans were solely responsible. As a defense intelligence agent in Cyprus, he knew the CIA was running a series of controlled deliveries of Lebanese heroin through the airports of Frankfurt and London. He also knew that the sting operation had been breached. This book is a gripping investigation into the question of who used their knowledge to substitute a bomb for the heroin, and why.