Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated edition
When the San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency's connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra affair. Broad in scope and extensively documented, Cocaine Politics shows that under the cover of national security and covert operations, the U.S. government has repeatedly collaborated...
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"Tells the sordid story of how elements of our own government went to work with narcotics traffickers, and then fought to suppress the truth about what they had done."—Jonathan Winer, Counsel, Kerry Subcommittee on Terrorism and Narcotics Publishers Weekly This important, explosive report charges that the U.S. ``war on drugs'' is largely a sham and calls for immediate political action to end Washington's complicity with drug networks. (May)
Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction11The Kerry Report: The Truth but Not the Whole Truth8Pt. IRight-Wing Narcoterrorism, the CIA, and the Contras2The CIA and Right-Wing Narcoterrorism in Latin America233Bananas, Cocaine, and Military Plots in Honduras514Noriega and the Contras: Guns, Drugs, and the Harari Network655The International Cali Connection and the United States796The Contra Drug Connections in Costa Rica104Pt. IIExposure and Cover-Up7Jack Terrell Reveals the Contra-Drug Connection1258North Moves to Silence Terrell1409How the Justice Department Tried to Block the Drug Inquiry14810Covert Operations and the Perversion of Drug Enforcement16511The Media and the Contra Drug Issue17212Conclusion186Notes193Names and Organizations259Index265
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ This important, explosive report charges that the U.S. ``war on drugs'' is largely a sham and calls for immediate political action to end Washington's complicity with drug networks. (May)\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalCoauthor Marshall's recent Drug Wars ( LJ 2/15/91) shows how Washington overlooks or supports drug trafficking as part of its efforts to thwart Third World communism around the world. This new book explores in detail the tangled connection between the Nicaraguan Contras, U.S. support for them, and drugs. Marshall and Scott argue that the United States might actually have furthered the flow of cocaine from Central America to the States by colluding with anti-Sandinista forces. Government intimidation of witnesses, a complacent Congress, and timid media have served to keep this a quiet story. Extensive interviews, government records, and secondary sources (enough, in fact, to produce over 60 pages of cited sources), are used to document in great detail how the war on communism took precedence over the war on drugs. An authoritiative account of a crucial but underpublicized issue.-- Cathy Seitz Whit aker, Univ. of Pittsburgh Lib.\ \
