The CIA trafficked illegal drugs into the US to fund anti-communist dictatorships in South America
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Official government investigations and reports by the CIA Inspector General, Department of Justice, and congressional committees concluded that allegations of CIA involvement in drug trafficking to fund the Contras were unsupported.
PROBE FINDS NO CIA LINK TO L.A. CRACK COCAINE SALES - The Washington Post
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# PROBE FINDS NO CIA LINK TO L.A. CRACK COCAINE SALES
INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT OFFERS NEW DETAILS ABOUT CONTRAS' RELATIONS WITH TRAFFICKERS
January 29, 1998
ByWalter Pincus
CIA Inspector General Frederick P. Hitz reported yesterday that a 15-month investigation found no evidence that the agency was involved directly or indirectly with Nicaraguan narcotics traffickers who sold crack cocaine to drug dealers in black areas of South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s.
But yesterday's report, the first of two resulting from an investigation into allegations published in August 1996 by the San Jose Mercury News, disclosed new information about relations between Nicaraguan rebels, who were supported by the CIA, and drug dealers operating in Central America and the United States.
For example, former Nicaraguan rebel leader Eden Pastora tol
CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking
A number of writers have alleged that the United States Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations during the 1980s Nicaraguan civil war in efforts to finance the Contra group that was trying to topple the Sandinista National Liberation Front. These claims have led to investigations by the United States government, including hearings and reports by the United States House of Representatives, Senate, Department of Justice, and the CIA's Office of the Inspector General which ultimately concluded the allegations were unsupported. The subject remains controversial.
A 1986 investigation by a sub-committee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (the Kerry Committee), found that "the Contra drug links included", among other connections, "payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras, in some cases after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies on drug charges, in others while traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies."
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