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**Mosiah** · November 13, 2011, 08:25 AM

Yuh have no Clovis in deh?

**Don1** · November 13, 2011, 08:34 AM

Originally posted by Mosiah View Post

Yuh have no Clovis in deh?

yep..upgraded...but that's an opinion piece...the others were so called "reports" or "news stories"

**Karl** · November 13, 2011, 09:50 AM

A suh di ting set!

**Muadib** · November 13, 2011, 09:53 AM

Wha dat Gleaner and Herald ?

yuh nuh tyad fi step pon glass ?

**Lazie** · November 13, 2011, 10:16 AM

"series of media content analyses"

Really? Or are you just targeting Jamaica Observer? You all are quick to condemn the Observer yet some hail the Sunday Herald. Where are your analysis of the Sunday Observer and Newstalk?

**Exile** · November 13, 2011, 10:37 AM

As someone with some scholastic potential (lol), I would refer you back to the ex-CIA agent Philip Agee (deceased) who showed how the Gleaner de-stabilized the Manley government using "psychological connection of disconnected headlines"...etc...

**Don1** · November 13, 2011, 10:39 AM

When yuh start pay mi yuh cyan try direk whey Don1 fi duh

Til den...tap yuh yappin'

**Exile** · November 13, 2011, 10:39 AM

That would be your job.

**Exile** · November 13, 2011, 10:45 AM

Let mi help yu:

CIA involvement with Jamaica's Shower Posse
Casey Gane-McCalla - Jun 13, 10
http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/c...wer-posse-3931
June 14, 2010
Newsone

Summary

With the recent violence in Jamaica and the controversy over alleged drug lord, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, many people are talking about the infamous Jamaican Shower Posse and the neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens, where they have their base. What is being ignored largely by the media, is the role that the American government and the CIA had in training, arming and giving power to the Shower Posse.

Analysis

It is interesting that the USA is indicting Christopher “Dudus” Coke, the current leader of the Shower Posse for drug and gun trafficking, given that the CIA was accused of smuggling guns into Jamaica and facilitating the cocaine trade from Jamaica to America in the 70s and 80s. In many ways Dudus was only carrying on a tradition of political corruption, drug running, guns and violence that was started with the help of the CIA.

Christopher “Dudus” Coke’s father was was Lester Coke, also known as Jim Brown, one of the founders of the Shower Posse and a fellow champion and protector of the impoverished Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston. Coke was a political enforcer and bodyguard to Edward Seaga, the leader of the Jamaican Labour Party.

Seaga’s opponent Michael Manley had begun to adopt “socialist” stances and began openly criticizing American foreign policies and meeting with U.S. enemy, Fidel Castro, in the 1970s. Given the Cold War the US was having with Russia, the CIA did not want Jamaica to be friendly with communists.

According to Gary Webb’s book,”The Dark Alliance,” Norman Descoteaux, the CIA station chief in Jamaica began a destabilization program of the Manley government in late 70s. Part of that plan was assassinations, money for the Jamaican Labour Party, labor unrest, bribery and shipping weapons to Manley’s opponents, like Lester “Jim Brown” Coke.

Author, Daurius Figueira writes in his book, “Cocaine And Heroin Trafficking In The Caribbean,” “In fact, it meant that illicit drug runners linked to the JLP were integrated into a CIA linked illicit drugs guns and criminal trafficking pipeline.”

Former CIA agent, Philip Agee, said “the CIA was using the JLP as its instrument in the campaign against the Michael Manley government, I’d say most of the violence was coming from the JLP, and behind them was the CIA in terms of getting weapons in and getting money in.”

One of Lester Coke’s associates, Cecil Connor, would claim that he was trained by the CIA to fight political wars for the JLP through killing and spying. Connor would stuff ballot boxes and intimidate voters to help the JLP win elections. Connor would go on from being a political thug to being part of the international Jamaican based cocaine ring known as the Shower Posse. He wound up testifying against Lester Coke and his cohort Vivian Blake, only to return to his native St. Kitts to become a drug kingpin who almost held the country hostage.

Christopher “Dudus” Coke’s father, Lester Coke has also been accused of working with the CIA. Timothy White speculates, in his biography of Bob Marley, “Catch A Fire,” that Jim Brown was part of a team of armed gunman that attempted to assassinate Bob Marley led by JLP enforcer Carl “Byah” Mitchell. Authors Laurie Gunst and Vivien Goldman also make the same assertions in their books, “Born Fi Dead” and “The Book Of Exodus.” Marley’s manager Don Taylor claims that one of Marley’s attackers was captured and admitted that the CIA had agreed to pay him in cocaine and guns to kill Marley.

Lester Coke would later be burned to death in a Jamaican jail cell, while awaiting extradition the the United States. Many people have claimed that he was killed so he wouldn’t reveal his secrets dealing with the CIA, JLP and criminal activity.

In its efforts to destabilize the Jamaican government in the 1970s, the CIA created a group of drug dealing, gun running, political criminals. Through the cocaine trade, these criminals would eventually become more powerful than the politicians they were connected to. The CIA destabilization program did not only destabilize Jamaica in the 70s, but it destabilized Jamaica for the next 40 years.

Given the secrecy of both CIA and Jamaican society, it is unclear exactly what was the CIA’s role in creating the Shower Posse. Did they give them guns? Were they given cocaine? Were they trained how to smuggle drugs? Did the CIA use the Shower Posse to try and kill Bob Marley? These are all questions that the CIA should answer.

If what is alleged about the CIA is true, then they are partially responsible for the cycle of gun trafficking, gun smuggling and violence that plagues Jamaica today. If the US can extradite the son of one of the CIA’s political enforcers for trafficking guns and cocaine, shouldn’t the CIA be investigated for training Jamaicans on how to conduct political warfare, arming them, giving them cocaine and helping them traffic it? Given the revelation that the CIA allowed Nicaraguan drug dealers to sell cocaine in the US to fund their revolution against their communist government, it is not that far fetched to believe that they would arm Jamaicans to with guns and give them cocaine to fight communists in Jamaica.

**Lazie** · November 13, 2011, 10:46 AM

Originally posted by Don1 View Post

When yuh start pay mi yuh cyan try direk whey Don1 fi duh

Til den...tap yuh yappin'

Oh ... suh its operation target Observer?

**Don1** · November 13, 2011, 10:58 AM

Originally posted by Lazie View Post

Oh ... suh its operation target Observer?

Nope...the Gleaner is a fair target...but less interesting since their leaning (if they do have a tribal preference) is far more subtle.

The Observer Newsletter has a main mission...to be a mouthpiece for the viewpoint of its owner...it is more interested in shaping the news environment of Jamaica to suit the interest of Stewart ..... than it is in recording "truth". Nothing illegal or immoral... just professionally unethical like a Murdoch...but worse since Stewart has 50% of the daily newspapers and is the big businessman in town whey peeple fraid fi criticize.. This is akin to Murdoch owning half the dailies in the US or UK

The Herald I don't read nor even recall most times that it exists...suh dat nuh count. Besides, it doesn't pretend to be balanced as the Observer does.... trying to maintain that fig leaf of impartiality... the Herald is an obvious PNP tribal website offering.

Stewart would have my respect if he just declared his interest in supporting the JLP with his newspaper...instead of manipulating the "news" with that JLP objective as it does routinely.

Ah suh di ting set

**Assasin** · November 13, 2011, 11:22 AM

Butch stewart ever hide his support for the JLP or PNP? He has published it several times as through his history he has supported both. He has it in print.

Butch criticize anybody, him never hide his feeling.

**Don1** · November 13, 2011, 11:31 AM

Your comprehension deficit is really quite annoying

**Assasin** · November 13, 2011, 11:59 AM

what you want him say? THIS IS A JLP PAPER?

How many newspaper you know declare themself as such for nay political party? All of them claim they they are neutral.

You are asking for the impossible.

You think Stewart is a idiot to comit his newspaper to suicide? Like Daily News

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