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Lester lloyd coke bob marley Continue Have a question for COVID-19? Talk to our virtual assistant. Editor's note: Periodically, an article appears at the Google News Bank referring to conspiracy theories about Bob Marley's death. My own work on Marley's struggle with the CIA and the ultimate demise contains no theories. I worked like any other journalist, collected reliable sources and information and published the results. I've never been in a country. I'm not a theorist. But if the mainstream media filters information, and agency employees lion's share as heroes, the CIA coined the phrase conspiracy theory can be applied without a doubt to ill-informed American proles and marginalized writers on the Internet whose motives are suspects. The consequence is the marginalization of authoritative journalism. I reported nearly two decades ago that the death squad that shot Marley and his family was trained by the CIA. At the time, this was dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Years later, the media reported that the CIA was indeed linked to the death squadron of Souls Posse. The derogatory label theory is often used by grinning dimwits unable to think without the help of the media bandwagon, imho, and their mental programmers in the press and online. Bob Marley understood mental slavery. It's a shame, so many conformist Americans don't. - AC Chris Burke AllVoices, June 04, 2010 (Reposted) Jamaican Shower Posse has made international headlines recently for inciting rebellion and murder on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica. This international gang, located in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston, Jamaica, is so named for a gang of 'soul' bullets on their enemies. Christopher Dudus Cox, the leader of the gang, tried to avoid extradition on several serious criminal charges in the United States, for which the Jamaican people refused to comply. New reports popping up around the world show that the United States of America is responsible for the creation and cultivation of this violent gang, Soul Posse. The U.S. government roll is said to be training the CIA, arming and supporting the shower posse. It is interesting to note that Dudus was the leader of the second generation of Shower Posse. His father, Lester, co-founded the gang before Dudus took the reins after killing his father in a prison cell in Kingston. According to Gary Webb's book The Dark Alliance, American troops killed Lester Cox in prison to prevent him from revealing CIA secrets. Why did the United States CIA empower, weaponise and support the shower posse in the 1970s? According to The Dark Alliance, Norman Descoteaux, the cia station chief in Jamaica began a program to destabilize the Manly government in the late 1970s. Edward Siga was then leader of Jamaica's Labour Party Sigi's opposition was Michael Manley, who became a problem for the United States when he began openly criticizing American foreign policy and meeting with the enemy of the United States, Fidel Castro, in the 1970s. During this Time, during the Cold War era, the United States resisted the alliance between Jamaica and Cuba. Thus, the United States armed Sigi's bodyguards to get the Manly Communists out. The act has launched a long-term series of violence and drug trafficking in the shower, creating an atmosphere of fear and intimidation in Jamaica ever since. As the CIA created the Jamaican dos Posse Casey Gane-McCalla NewsOne, June 3, 2010 with the recent violence in Jamaica and the controversy over the alleged drug lord, Christopher Dudus Coke, many people talk about the infamous Jamaica Shower Posse and the neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens, where they have their base. What is being ignored largely in the media is the role that the U.S. government and the CIA play in training, arming and providing power to shower Posse. Interestingly, the U.S. blames Christopher Dudus Coke, the current leader of Soul Posse for drugs and arms trafficking, given that the CIA was accused of smuggling weapons into Jamaica and facilitating the cocaine trade from Jamaica to America in the 70s and 80s. In many ways, Dudus is only continuing the tradition of political corruption, drugs, weapons and violence that was started with the help of the CIA. Christopher Dudus' Coke father was Lester Cox, also known as Jim Brown, co-founder of Shower Posse and fellow champion and protector of the poor Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston. Cox was the political performer and bodyguard of Edward Sigi, leader of the Jamaican Labour Party. Sigi's opponent, Michael Manley, began to take socialist positions and began openly criticizing American foreign policy and meeting with U.S. foe Fidel Castro in the 1970s. Given the Cold War the U.S. waged with Russia, the CIA did not want Jamaica to be friendly with the Communists. According to Gary Webb's book The Dark Alliance, Norman Descoteaux, the cia station chief in Jamaica began a program to destabilize the Manly government in the late 1970s. Part of the plan was murder, money for Jamaica's Labor Party, labor unrest, bribery and arms delivery to Manly opponents such as Leicester's Jim Brown Cox. The author, Daurius Figueira writes in his book Cocaine and Heroin Trade in the Caribbean, In fact, this meant that illegal drug runners associated with JLP were integrated into the CIA-related illicit drug weapons and criminal pipeline trafficking. Former CIA agent, Philip Ige, said: The CIA uses JLP as its in the campaign against the government of Michael Manley, I would say that most of the violence comes from the JLP, and behind them was the CIA in terms of getting guns and getting money. One of Lester Cox's associates, Cecil Connor, will claim that he was trained by the CIA to fight the political wars over JLP through murder and espionage. Connor will be the stuff of ballot boxes and intimidating voters to help the JLP win the election. Connor will continue from being a political thug to being part of the international Jamaican cocaine ring known as Soul Posse. He finished testifying against Lester Cox and his cohort Vivian Blake, only to return to his native St Kitts to become a drug lord who almost held the country hostage. Christopher Dudus' Father, Lester Cox, was also accused of working with the CIA. Timothy White speculates, in his biography of Bob Marley, Catch Fire, that Jim Brown was part of a team of armed gunmen who tried to kill Bob Marley led by JLP enforcer Carl Byah Mitchell. Authors Laurie Gunst and Vivienne Goldman also make the same statements 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 agreed to pay him with cocaine and weapons to kill Marley. Lester Cox was later burned to death in a Jamaican prison cell awaiting extradition to the United States. Many people claimed that he was killed so he did not reveal his secrets concerning the CIA, JLP and criminal activities. In its efforts to destabilize the Jamaican government in the 1970s, the CIA established a group of drug traffickers, weapons dealers, political criminals. The cocaine trade has eventually made these criminals more powerful than the politicians with whom they were associated. The CIA's destabilization programme not only destabilized Jamaica in the 1970s, but also destabilized Jamaica over the next 40 years. Given the secrecy of both the CIA and Jamaican society, it is unclear what the CIA's role was in creating Soul Posse. Did they give them a gun? Were they given cocaine? Were they trained in drug smuggling? The CIA used the shower to try to kill Bob Marley? These are all questions the CIA has to answer. If what is said about the CIA is true, they are partly responsible for the cycle of arms trafficking, arms smuggling and violence that plagues Jamaica today. If the U.S. can extradite the son of a CIA political security officer for arms and cocaine trafficking, shouldn't the CIA be investigated to train Jamaicans on how to wage a political war, arm them, give them cocaine, and help them run it? Given the revelation that the CIA allowed Nicaraguan drug traffickers to sell cocaine to the U.S. to fund their revolution against Communist government, it is not so far brought to believe that they will arm Jamaicans with weapons and give them cocaine to fight the Communists in Jamaica. T The assassination attempt on Bob Marley occurred in Jamaica on December 3, 1976, when seven armed men broke into the home of reggae musician Bob Marley two days before he was due to give a concert in an attempt to quell the recent violence. Politicians from across the political spectrum hoped to capitalize on Marley's support. While Marley remained neutral, many felt he tacitly supported Prime Minister Michael Manley and his democratic socialist People's National Party. Marley and three others were shot, but all survived. The militants were caught, tried and executed. Concert and election controversy Bob Marley claimed to be unpretentious in Jamaican politics and initially agreed to play one song on the condition that the concert was not political. However, after Manly postponed the election to December 15, both parties considered Marley's gig, scheduled just ten days earlier, to be an endorsement of the SNP. Attempted murder at 8.30pm, December 3, 1976, two days before the Smile Jamaica concert, seven men armed with guns broke into Marley's home at 56 Hope Road.