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5. So many with dirty and bloody hands in the Nicaragua/Contra...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 31, 2023, 12:23 PM

Aug 2023

arms/cocaine intersection. The CIA continues to meddle.

There's still uncertainly in what the agency had to do with reporter Gary Webb's death as he broke the story on the Contra-cocaine link to the drug traffic in California.

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Chile: The Secrets the US Government Continues to Hide [View all] Judi Lynn Aug 2023 OP

America really should have tried more debt traps to bring other nations to heel! Alexander Of Assyria Aug 2023 #1

I imagine here was some CIA skullduggery in Nicaragua... b brush Aug 2023 #2

When I saw your post, I immediately remembered seeing an interview on TV with a former CIA Judi Lynn Aug 2023 #3

What created a desperate need for a new leader was the decades-old, vicious Somoza dictatorship Judi Lynn Aug 2023 #4

Wonder where these tinpots get those snazzy uniforms? brush Aug 2023 #7

Gabon military led coup, removing 42 year family dictatorship ...makes one think sometimes it's ok. Alexander Of Assyria Aug 2023 #8

So many with dirty and bloody hands in the Nicaragua/Contra... brush Aug 2023 #5

Indeed! It's impossible to forget that "suicide." They had a deep grudge against him. Judi Lynn Aug 2023 #6

I'm looking forward to the release of these documents. Chile was unique in Latin America for a Martin68 Aug 2023 #9