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87. The CIA, the Contras and Crack Cocaine by Dennis Bernstein and Robert Knight

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The CIA, the Contras and Crack Cocaine
by Dennis Bernstein and Robert Knight


One day in the early 1980s, Wanda Palacio watched a Hercules cargo plane roll to a stop on the tarmac of Barranquilla International Airport, located in the Andean foothills just off the azure waters of Colombia's northern coast. According to Palacio, the aircraft bore the markings of Southern Air Transport, a private airline formerly run by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency.

Palacio was in Barranquilla that day with her host, Jorge Luis Ochoa, to arrange a cocaine deal. At the time, Ochoa was known as Colombia's most ambitious drug lord.

As Palacio watched men in green uniforms remove two green military trunks out of the plane and onto a truck -- she would describe this scene later in an 11-page sworn statement to Congress -- her host explained his operation: The plane was a CIA plane, Ochoa told her, and he was "exchanging guns for drugs." The crew, he said, were CIA agents, and "these shipments came each Thursday from the CIA, landing at dusk. Sometimes they brought guns, sometimes they brought U.S. products such as washing machines, gourmet food, fancy furniture or other items for the traffickers which they could not get in Colombia." And each time, Ochoa told Palacio, "they took back drugs."

http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9612a/ciacontra.html


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A genuine "dark" operation
But our eyes are not closed to the CIA "company" presence. In fact, Robert Knight and Dennis Bernstein were among the very first to report original details with participants and eyewitnesses of the NSC-CIA-contra-cocaine connection. It was exactly ten years ago that we launched the award-winning "Undercurrents" investigative news program which aired on more than a hundred radio stations nationwide. We also wrote of the contra "guns-for-drugs" phenomenon in major mainstream newspapers and magazines.

On March 31, 1987, we published original details in a nationally syndicated Newsday article,

Why is the Contra-Cocaine Connection Being Ignored?

In September, 1996, we revisited the story in the Baltimore Sun and Lexington Herald-Leader:

Why is the Contra-Cocaine Connection STILL Being Ignored?

On October 4, 1996 we published a widely-distributed article for the Pacific News Service and Philadelphia Tribune,

DEA Agent's Decade Long Battle to Expose CIA-Contra-Crack Story

Our most recent effort is currently apperaing in weekly newspapaers across the country:

How the Contras Invaded the United States

Our work was also selected for inclusion in the October 8, 1996 SALON "Newsreal" page,

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The CIA & Drugs
Narco-colonialism in the 20th Century

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http://www3.uakron.edu/worldciv/pascher/narco.html
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