the cia and coke

Factual Questions
1

any veracity to claims that Coca-Cola was used as a CIA front in the fifties and sixties? I am reading about Kolody v. Coca-Cola and Simon Marketing, and the above tidbit is supposedly central.

the gist is that the CIA was running out of means to get operatives into foreign countries, what with said countries wising up to the ways the Company worked. so, Coke being one of the first truly multinational corporations, they offered assistance to the CIA. perhaps in the form of having agents pose as high-level foreign executives? not really sure; not much details was gotten into.

any help?

thanks,

jb

p.s.- the case, Kolody blah blah, is immensely interesting. I’d advise anyone interested in corporate juggernauts and miscarriages of justice to research a bit. sorry that i don’t have any links handy- i’ve hard-copied my reading.

2

Man, can I Google or what!

http://www.skolnicksreport.com/cocaccc.html

3

cornflakes, thanks for the info.

unfortunately, Skolnick is allied with Kolody, and i’m trying to find somewhat independant verification.

also, it’s hard to take seriously a site whose idea of footnotes is such: **The cocaine trace made [Coca-Cola] addictive. So did the sugar content, according to some nutritionist. **

however, you gotta love anyone who intimates that Art Bell was in fact a psy-opper, running counterintelligence for the Gummint.
jb

4

The page you probably got it from was:
http://www.guerrillanews.com
(www.coca-karma.com should work too)
The site is a great site and has a rather interesting BBS like this one, so I thought I’d mention it.