The view from the bridge
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[…] 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 […]
Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller
[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 […]
The View from the Bridge
Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted
[…] 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 […]
Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War 1 to 9/11 by Kathryn S. Olmsted
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[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 […]
The Christian Right Revisited
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[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 […]
Holding pattern
[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 […]
The view from the bridge
[…] 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 […]