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Cracktoberfest Part Two: How The CIA Became Drug Dealers

Behind the Bastards

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What's the Difference Between the CIA and the Drug Business?

US officials who took part in joint CIA-contra operations argued against the version of events that I have just related to you without actually refuting it right because they specifically can't argue against the facts. Dwayne Claridge at the time the head of the CIA's Latin American Division said that he quote certainly never dealt with Popo Chamorro but might have met him and definitely didn't know nor Morales when Congress investigated this in 1987 the CIA claimed that just after this meeting they decided never to work again with Costa Rican based Contras as they'd figured out they were involved in the Koch industry.

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