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CIA’S DRUG-DEALING ROLE
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CIA UNDER PREASURE
Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 21, 1996
CIA ON DEFENSIVE
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CIA COKE RING FUELS ANGER
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BACKGROUND
CIA Drug Link Known For Years
THE POLITICS OF HEROIN
CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
A 1991 interview with Alfred McCoy
POWDERBURNS: Cocaine, Contras And The Drug War
By Celerino Castillo III
and Dave Harmon (Review)
DEA’S FINEST DETAILS CORRUPTIONBy John Veit (Shadow #35)
GUATEMALAN DEATH-SQUAD
Kingpin Linked To Cia, Drug Trade
By John Veit
(High Times, July, 1995)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Online Drug
Policy Library
Constitution of the United States
The Bill of Rights
Against the “War on Drugs”
A Dangerous Policy
Drug High
How Has the “War on Drugs” Failed?”
The Duplicity of the War on Drugs
Seizing Drugs, Seizing Property
Abolish the Drug Laws?
A Losing Battle
Marijuana, a Signal of Misunderstanding
Nicotine Is More Addictive Than Heroin
Addictive Properties of Nicotine
Marijuana and Immunity:
Health Aspects of Cannabis:
Legalize it NOW:
Introduction to the Hoover Resolution.
The Hover Resolution
The Heidelberg Declaration
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- Day One: America’s ‘crack’ plague has roots in nicaragua war
- Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras Backers of CIA-led Nicaraguan rebels brought cocaine to poor L.A. neighborhoods in early ’80s to help finance war — and a plague was born. Published: Aug. 18, 1996
- Day Two: Shadowy origins of ‘crack’ epidemic
- Role of CIA-linked agents a well-protected secret until now How a smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager created the cocaine pipeline, and how crack was “born” in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1974. Published: Aug. 19, 1996
- Day Three: War on drugs has unequal impact on black americans
- Contra case illustrates the discrepancy: Nicaraguan goes free; L.A. dealer faces life The impact of the crack epidemic on the black community and why justice hasn’t been for all. Published: Aug. 20, 1996
San Jose Mercury News Postscript Archive
Drug raid documents reveal allegations of CIA involvement Published: Oct. 6, 1996
Allegations supporting long-held suspicions seen as unifying issue for blacks Published: Oct. 6, 1996
Questions arise about MN series on CIA-crack link Published: Oct. 4, 1996
Affidavit: Cops knew of drug ring Published: Oct. 3, 1996
Black leaders call for class-action lawsuit Published: Sept. 30, 1996
Gag order concealed possible CIA drug tiesPublished: Sept. 29, 1996
South Central residents condemn CIA’s reported role Published: Sept. 29, 1996
Activist vows to continue protests over alleged CIA-crack link Published: Sept. 27, 1996
Ex-DEA agent supports allegations; protesters arrested Published: Sept. 24, 1996
North calls CIA-drug allegations “garbage” Published: Sept. 22, 1996
Two probes start into possible CIA-drug ring tiesPublished: Sept. 21, 1996
CIA promises independent investigationPublished: Sept. 20, 1996
Waters may force vote to establish probe Published: Sept. 18, 1996
Dealer’s sentencing postponed Published: Sept. 14, 1996
Congressional Black Caucus demands investigation Published: Sept. 13, 1996
Pair arrested while urging probe Published: Sept. 12, 1996
Jackson calls for investigation Published: Sept. 8, 1996
Series leads to CIA probePublished: Sept. 6, 1996
Waters calls on Attorney GeneralPublished: Sept. 4, 1996
Boxer calls for CIA probePublished: Aug. 29, 1996
Black groups seek probe of CIA drug links Published: Aug. 24, 1996
Editorial: Another CIA disgrace: Helping the crack flow Published: Aug. 21, 996
- DEA AGENT CONFIRMS
PRNewsire Sept. 23, 1996
- A former narcotics agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration
said today that he could document evidence that his agency knew of
the shipments of cocaine flown from Central America to the United
States. Celerino Castillo III confirmed the charges of a three-part
series published by the San Jose Mercury News written by Gary
Webb, which said that during the 1980’s the Central Intelligence
Agency backed Contras who were involved in selling crack cocaine
to L.A. street gangs to get money for their military.
- CHARGES AGAINST CIA
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 23, 1996
- Barry McCaffrey, director of the federal Office of Drug
Control Policy, had good reasons to add his voice to
those calling for a formal inquiry into drug-smuggling
charges against the CIA.
- CIA’S DRUG-DEALING ROLE
Cynthia Tucker San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 21, 1996
- DRUGS? They want to talk about drugs in America? Before this sordid tale is finished with the telling, both Bob Dole, who injected rising drug use among adolescents into the presidential campaign, and Bill Clinton, who couldn’t resist saying something back, may regret getting mired in the subject of illegal narcotics.
- CIA UNDER PREASURE
Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 21, 1996
- An expose by a California newspaper is raising questions about whether American intelligence officials in the 1980s permitted the “contra” rebels to sell drugs in US cities to help fund guerrilla
warfare against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
Mid- and late-1980s news reports and congressional
investigations did in fact establish that certain people associated
with the CIA-backed rebel group did engage in drug trafficking as a
means to support the contras.
- CIA ON DEFENSIVE
Reuter, Sept. 18, 1996
- WASHINGTON (Reuter) – The CIA has been thrown on the defensive by charges that it helped flood U.S. ghettos with cocaine to finance rebels fighting Nicaragua”s Marxist government in the 1980s.
- CIA COKE RING FUELS ANGER
Knight Ridder, Sept. 13, 1996
- WASHINGTON — A newspaper investigation that a CIA-supported drug ring introduced crack cocaine to Los Angeles is leading to calls for congressional hearings and a growing sense of outrage from African-Americans across the country
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