Nicaraguan Dictator's Shit's Breaking at Different Times, Right?

In 1986, the New York Times published an expose on Manuel Noriega's illicit money laundering and drug activities. The Reagan administration tried to get help by paying him a million dollars from project democracy funds raised by the sale of US arms for Iran. Oliver North is telling John Poindexter that Noriega can assist with sabotaging the Sandinistas and carrying out assassination operations. Alan Fears, who is one of the CIA agents who's heavily involved in everything happening in Latin America, is against the idea of arming one of the biggest drug lords in the area With illegal arm steel cash.