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ParaScope, one of several online journals rich in conspiracy-theorizing, attached this headline: "CIA's Contras Linked to Crack Trade."
If so, the paper should have explained how it squares with past U.S. support for Afghanistan forces against the Soviets and for contras against the Nicaraguan government, or for Israel against various Arab countries, etc.
A staffer for McFarlane and Poindexter, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, developed a scheme to trade U.S. arms for hostages and divert the proceeds to the Contras to get around U.S. law.
He claimed that there was not "one iota" of evidence that profits from the sale of arms to Iran had been diverted to the Nicaraguan Contras, that his aides hadn't lied to Congress about the affair, and so on.
A decade ago, when the contras and Sandinistas were willing proxies for the final great showdown of the Cold War, a Daniel Ortega press conference could easily draw 100 foreign reporters--double that if he had a captured American spy or some other bauble to show off.