Lester Coleman's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

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“Lester Coleman, a former agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), worked for the DIA in the Middle East, including the DEA office in Nicosia from where the drug smuggling operation was monitored” (Stich). Coleman worked with DEA agent-in-charge Michael Hurley who monitored the CIA-DEA drug route. Coleman and another CIA source, Oswald LeWinter, claim that Hurley was the DEA agent-in-charge of the area including the famous CIA drug trafficking at Arkansas. While working with Hurley, Coleman also found that the DEA was selling software stolen by Justice Department officials to a company dealing drugs and arms and multiple countries including Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan. Coleman co-authored a book revealing the truth

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