Kerry committee

 
1986
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."[1] [[ this should come to no surprise; some of the Contras were known drug traffickers, that's is what they do, like that's their business;  being drug traffickers, they have airplane, trained pilots, who already know the air traffic corridor, and speak the local language, that's used to move drugs, the same airplane that is also used to move arms and humanitarian assistance to supply their fighting operation. ]]

1.  ^ Jump up to: a b c Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications and International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (1989). Drugs, law enforcement, and foreign policy : A report. S. PRT. ;100-165. Washington: GPO.
2.  ^ Weiner, Tim (December 19, 1997). "C.I.A. Says It Has Found No Link Between Itself and Crack Trade". The New York Times. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
3.  ^ Daunt, Tina (March 16, 2005). "Written in Pain". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Archived from the original on January 29, 2015. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
4.  ^ Schou 2006, p. 167,169-170,184.
5.  ^ Risen, James. "C.I.A. Says It Used Nicaraguan Rebels Accused of Drug Tie". NYTimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
6.  ^ Aiken, Jonathan. "CIA admits it overlooked Contras' links to drugs". CNN.com. CNN. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
7.  ^ Jump up to: a b c Brian Barger and Robert Parry, "Reports Link Nicaraguan Rebels to Cocaine Trafficking", Associated Press (December 20, 1985).
8.  ^ Scott, Peter Dale & Marshall, Jonathan (1998). Cocaine politics: drugs, armies, and the CIA in Central America. University of California Press. pp. 8–9. ISBN 978-0-520-21449-1.
9.  ^ Marcy, William L. (2010). The Politics of Cocaine: How U.S. Policy Has Created a Thriving Drug Industry in Central and South America. Chicago Review Press. pp. 108–109. ISBN 978-1-55652-949-8.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_cocaine_trafficking
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Committee_report

Kerry Committee investigation

Once you set up a covert operation to supply arms and money, it's very difficult to separate it from the kind of people who are involved in other forms of trade, and especially drugs. There is a limited number of planes, pilots and landing strips. By developing a system for supply of the Contras, the US built a road for drug supply into the US.

   — Former contract analyst for the CIA David MacMichael[14]

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, chaired at the time by Senator John Kerry, held a series of hearings from 1987 to 1988 on drug cartels and drug money laundering in South and Central America and the Caribbean.

The Subcommittee's final report, issued in 1989, said that Contra drug links included:

  •─ Involvement in narcotics trafficking by individuals associated with the Contra movement.
  •─ Participation of narcotics traffickers in Contra supply operations through business relationships with Contra organizations.
  •─ Provision of assistance to the Contras by narcotics traffickers, including cash, weapons, planes, pilots, air supply services and other materials, on a voluntary basis by the traffickers.
  •─ Payments to drug traffickers by the U.S. State Department of funds authorized by the Congress for humanitarian assistance to the Contras,
  •─ 
  •─ 

According to the report, the U.S. State Department paid over $806,000 to "four companies owned and operated by narcotics traffickers" to carry humanitarian assistance to the Contras.[1]

1.  ^ Jump up to: a b c Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications and International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (1989). Drugs, law enforcement, and foreign policy : A report. S. PRT. ;100-165. Washington: GPO.

1989
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications and International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate (1989). 

. Drugs, law enforcement, and foreign policy : A report. 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Committee_report

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