It was with something like relief that I began reading MI6 Are The Lords Of The Global Drug Trade by James Casbolt. After the heavy duty, immensely complex ruminations on 9/11 which have dominated the conspiracy airwaves recently, here was something like a back-to-basics piece of conspiracy theorising, with all the faults of the genre.

The author makes the following statements at the beginning of the piece:

“The global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade, British intelligence reigns supreme.

“I worked for MI6 in ‘black ops’, cocaine trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between 1995 and 1999.