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 ...
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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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VERY GOOD. JACKET: CREASED DJ. 6X9. Signed by the author, "When a liar looks in the mirror & sees a liar-he assumes a truth-teller s lying too? The same goes for governments! Lester K. Coleman October 2006", monochrome photographs; Clean tight copy; Boards sl. shelfworn at bottom edge; slightly damaged; remainder stamp to title page but only damage visible is thinned patch to free front endpaper; neat initials in ink to back pastedown; unclipped, pictorial dustjacket; covers sl rubbed at edges and corners, with laminate just behinning to life at edges; head of spine nicked and rubbed, creases to bottom outer edges both foldovers, in 1988; Pan Am Flight 103 was downed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people; In January 2001; a three judge panel sitting under the auspices of the High Couth of Justiciarty at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands found Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al Megrahi guilty of murder; the second defendant; Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted on all charges; in this controversial book; however, Lester Coleman who was an agent with America's ultra-defensive Defense Intelligence Agency in the Middle East; dared to contradict the U.S. government's line that Libya was entirely responsible for the Lockerbie disaster. He described a dangerous web of connections between the western Drug Enforcement Administration and Middle East organizations and specifically about DEA arrangements for controlled delivery baggage handling out of Frankfurt airport. What he knew put a different spin on the Lockerbie tragedy, suggesting that it was a Syrian based terrorist cell that blew up the aircraft and infiltrated a US Drug sting pipeline to do it; Coleman ended up as an exile in Sweden after trumped up passport charges were filed against him in Chicago _PAB_
