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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 Administration
(DEA) 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 organization -- The Defense
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 the security of this
'sting' operation had been breached and warned the American embassy that
a disaster was waiting to happen. He 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 'optopus' -- made its
move.
Trail of the Octopus is a gripping investigation into the causes of the
Lockerbie disaster and the subsequent manipulation of the evidence. It
is a revelatory insight into the rival American intelligence agencies
and their use of Middle East drug traffickers and terrorists. And it is
the story of a man who became a prisoner of his own knowledge.
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