[…] with government permission, gave cocaine dealers in Central and South America a ‘get out of jail free’ card: for a few thousand dollars of support for the contras they could fly their product in unhindered. And so the guns out and drugs back pattern began. Iran-Contra is all too frequently short-handed as weapons-for-hostages. More […]
[PDF file]: […] last decade and a half. The thesis of “Transnationalised Repression” also seems only too relevant to U.S. politics in Nicaragua, as we learn of support for the Contras from first Argentina and Israel, and now allegedly from South Africa. The restrained optimism of the essay’s conclusions, written in the first year of the Carter […]
[PDF file]: […] with government permission, gave cocaine dealers in Central and South America a ‘get out of jail free’ card: for a few thousand dollars of support for the contras they could fly their product in unhindered. And so the guns out and drugs back pattern began. Iran-Contra is all too frequently short-handed as weapons-for-hostages. More […]
[PDF file]: […] of fear that they fostered and thrived on. One area where Reagan went out of his way to enlist their active backing was US support for the Contras in Nicaragua. Leading figures from the Christian Right such as Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye and Pat Robertson, were invited to the White House to be briefed […]
[PDF file]: […] subject of a recent FOIA disclosure from the Agency. The Agency’s internal history of Gary Webb’s infamous 1996 ‘Dark Alliance’ story that exposed CIA complicity in the Contras’ cocaine smuggling shenanigans was entitled ‘Managing a Nightmare’ – but appears to suggest that CIA did no management at all.15 The CIA’s historian refers to the […]
[…] with government permission, gave cocaine dealers in Central and South America a ‘get out of jail free’ card: for a few thousand dollars of support for the contras they could fly their product in unhindered. And so the guns out and drugs back pattern began. Iran-Contra is frequently short-handed as weaponsfor-hostages. More significantly it […]
[PDF file]: […] with government permission, gave cocaine dealers in Central and South America a ‘get out of jail free’ card: for a few thousand dollars of support for the contras they could fly their product in unhindered. And so the guns out and drugs back pattern began. Iran-Contra is frequently short-handed as weapons-for-hostages. More significantly it […]
[PDF file]: […] Cyprus in 1974, said: “In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase Gary Webb, Dark alliance: the CIA, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion, p. 264. This is on-line. 4 William M. LeoGrande, ‘Did the Prestige Press Miss the Nicaraguan Drug Story?’ at . 5 […]
[…] on other similar papers or TV programmes – none of which are enhanced by straying off the reservation. Gary Webb and his stories about the CIA, the Contras and cocaine – the dark alliance as he called it – in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996, illustrated what can happen when you leave […]
