[…] 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]: […] trained the president’s bodyguard), El Salvador, Uruguay and elsewhere. Over time, they became deeply involved in providing covert British assistance to the Sri Lankan government, the Nicaraguan Contras and the Afghan Mujihadeen – as well as, of course, Sultan Qaboos in Oman. Miller does not seem to have found any evidence of KMS involvement […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Attorney Stanley Marcus and DEA chief Peter Gruden in Miami said, they had no evidence implicating any Nicaraguan official 2 Gary Webb, Dark alliance: the CIA, the contras, and the crack cocaine explosion, p. 264; this is on-line. Page 40 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 besides Vaughn. Nevertheless, the White House exploited the Seal case […]
