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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie – Inside the DIA is a book co-written by Lester Coleman and Donald Goddard. It received its United Kingdom publication in 1993 and its first United States publication in 2009. Coleman wrote that terrorists had infiltrated a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) operation outside of the United States and, because of incompetence on part of the DEA, were able to smuggle a bomb on Pan Am 103. Coleman said \"No one knows what is really going on. If they ever did, it would make Watergate look like Alice in Wonderland.\" In the book Coleman accused Hurley of being the primary figure of responsibility of a coverup of the actual causes of the crash; Coleman also accused Martz and another Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalist, Lloyd M. Burchette, Jr., of being involved in a coverup. In the book Coleman also claims he sought, and was granted, political sanctuary in Sweden and further claims in the book that after he was under Swedish protection he provided Pan American World Airways with a civil affidavit which cleared Pan Am of full responsibility for the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing.Bloomsbury published Coleman's book in the United Kingdom. Christopher Byron of New Yorker said that Goddard chose to have the book published in his home country, the UK because \"negative publicity livened the book market for him in the U.S.\" Byron said that attempts by Bloomsbury to sell the book in the United States turned into a frenzy\".\" A spokesperson for Bloomsbury stated that she had \"complete confidence\" in Coleman's statements. According to Byron, after a series of interviews with people mentioned in the book, he could not find any who had been contacted by Bloomsbury about their role in the book.Hurley attempted to sue Bloomsbury in a London court. The DEA head and the book's publisher agreed to dissolve the complaint A defunked newspaper in Alabama owned by S.I. Newhouse, a publisher with ties to Syracuse University, that lost several students on Pan Am 103, printed several articles.The Mobile Register stated that the book publishers affirmed that Coleman's statements against Hurley were true and paid Bloosbury's legal fees and an additional undisclosed sum.As of 2013 the book is published by 1st Publisher."@en }

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