Leslie Cockburn
Leslie Cockburn has a Master’s from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. While in London she began working for NBC News. Among her early reports was an interview with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In 1978, Cockburn moved to CBS. Her 1984 report, ‘The Dirty War’, revealed the Contras' horrifying record of routine atrocities against the civilian population. Following the overthrow of the Duvalier regime in Haiti in 1986, Cockburn’s ‘Haiti’s Nightmare’ (1987) led to an outcry in Congress and the suspension of all US military aid to Haiti. In 1987, Cockburn began producing and reporting documentaries for PBS Frontline, in collaboration with her husband, Andrew Cockburn. This included ‘From the Killing Fields’ for ABC News. During the 1991 Gulf War, Cockburn reported from Israel on the Iraqi Scud attacks against Tel Aviv. Her 1991 PBS Frontline documentary, ‘The War We Left Behind’, exposed the disastrous impact of economic sanctions on ordinary Iraqis. In 1997, Cockburn conceived and co-produced The Peacemaker, starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, a thriller about a terrorist attack on New York City with a stolen nuclear weapon. In 1998, Cockburn served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. After teaching for a semester, she returned to full-time journalism, producing a number of pieces for 60 Minutes, including ‘America’s Worst Nightmare’ (2000), a 60 Minutes report on political instability in a nuclear-armed Pakistan and the growing power of fundamentalist groups linked to the Taliban. In 2009, Cockburn directed and co-produced her first feature documentary for theatrical release. ‘American Casino’ relates the story of the origins, progress and consequences of the subprime mortgage disaster that led to the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. The film premiered at New York's Tribeca Film Festival in April 2009. ‘Baghdad Solitaire’ is her first novel.
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Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline & the Contra Drug Connection
by Leslie Cockburn
Rating: 4.1 ⭐
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For two years the author had been investigating the secret funding of the Contras by the White House. Here, she identifies the network of National Security Council staff (led by Colonel Oliver North), CIA operatives & ex-agents who set up this illegal support system, after the passage of the Boland Amendment in 10/1984 which made it illegal for the US government to give direct or indirect aid to the Contras. There is a detailed account of how mercenaries were recruited from all over the world & sent to CIA-run training bases in Costa Rica; how money was obtained thru various means, ranging from the Iran arms deal to an arrangement with cocaine smugglers bringing drugs into Florida in return for quarterly payments into Contra bank accounts; how guns were procured, flown to US-controlled military bases in Central America & then delivered into the hands of the Contras. The author, a British journalist, worked for CBS News beginning in 1978.
In Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, love and friendship are as uncertain as the shifting battle lines of the civil war. Lee McGuinness, a trauma surgeon on a humanitarian mission, is also on a personal quest: to find her companion-in-arms, Martin Carrigan, who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Has he been kidnapped for ransom? Or is he a traitor to his country, running arms to the insurgents? In search of someone - and something - to believe in, Lee must navigate a wilderness of mirrors in which greed, lies, and brutality are found among allies and enemies alike. In the tradition of Graham Greene and Robert Stone, Leslie Cockburn has written a haunting novel of intrigue and romance set in a deadly world of deception.
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by Leslie Cockburn
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One Point Safe
by Leslie Cockburn