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Cracktoberfest Part Five: How the CIA and the L.A. Times Killed Gary Webb

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The CIA Isn't Required to Report Narcotics Violations to the CIA, Right?

In 1982, as the United States was plotting how to overthrow the Sandinista government that came to power in Nicaragua, a memorandum of understanding MOU was being drafted. The subject was a list of offenses that CIA field officers in the field were required to report if they witnessed or became aware of a crime. It omitted narcotics violations because it wasn't their job to spot it, right? And weeks later, there's a follow-up letter based on internal discussion in the Justice Department that gets sent to the CIA. This is something Smith writes to Casey in 1982, February.

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