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

Lester K Coleman (Author), Donald Goddard (Contributor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (August 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439237808
• ISBN-13: 978-1439237809
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #864,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars UNSUNG HERO, September 5, 2009

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R. taylor "Robin Taylor" (St Bernards Parish, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie - Inside the DIA (Paperback)

This is one of those " can't put it down" reads. Trail of the Octopus is a masterful depiction of how the U.S. government cabal operates in the shadowy world of deceit. It is also an amazingly well documented account of what lengths the spy apparatus is prepared to go to silence anyone who dares raise the alarm. Every human rights advocate should read this book. It puts the abuse exposed in Iraq in perspective by showing what the U.S. did to one of it's own, the Author, Lester Coleman.
The reader will fully understand why Libya was blamed for the crash of Pan Am 103, then allowed to re-enter the world society without a blemish. Coleman documents that Libyan Leader, Muhammar Gadaffi was a CIA asset who secretly supplied him with 20 tons of plastic explosives and trained terrorists cells throughout the Middle East to blow up airliners.
This book will make everyone who watches the babble at FOX NEWS cringe.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Oh what webs we weave..., October 17, 2010

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V-ROD "Bookworm" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie - Inside the DIA (Paperback)

The premise of this book is that there was a DEA sting operation on Pan Am flights from Europe to the U.S. with luggage loaded with heroin from the DEA in an attempt to infiltrate the drug dealers network. The author claims that this operation was infiltrated and luggage with a plastic explosive was placed on the airplane instead. Here we have once again terrorist activity and our own government working in duplicity. Innocent people get killed, and government brass get a slap on the wrist or usually get promoted.

Also in this book is more details on the Iran/Contra affair and the drug running that was being done which affirms the truth in Gary Webb's book. This book confirms the drug running and money laundering that is essential to the economy of other nations including our own. Also there is a link to the PROMIS software scandal that Danny Casolaro was investigating; which ended up costing him his life. I'm sure many people will like this book, but for me these scandals keep repeating and it is downright depressing. The CIA, DIA, DEA, FBI, are supposed to be working for us, but they are more often than not the enemy within.