Contra-Cocaine Trafficking event
also: contra-cocaine business, Contra drug story, cocaine smuggling
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Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Contrasorganization · 2Nicaraguacountry · 1Jack Blumperson · 1Norwin Menendezperson · 1San Francisco Chronicleorganization · 1Brian Bargerperson · 1Bob Perryperson · 1San Francisco Examinerorganization · 1Dawn Garciaperson · 1
Claims (2)
Senate Foreign Relations Committee exposed
Contra-Cocaine Trafficking documented
“For the next six days, I sat with rolls of dimes and microfiche printers back in the good old days in a quiet wooded paneled library, reading and copying many of the 1,100 pages of transcripts and exhibits from the Cary committee hearings, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 54:18
Iran-Contra Committee covered_up
Contra-Cocaine Trafficking guest_asserted
“We were dumped on by the Iran-Contra committee. They wouldn't touch this issue with a 10-foot pole. There had to have been some reporters who followed this, I protested. Maybe I'm naive, but it seems like a huge story to me. Bloom laughed o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 1 @ 57:03
Mentions (4)
▶ 39:41
That's who the FBI and the IRS wanted to talk to him about. Rafael had known Norwin and his nephew for years, since the 70s. The government is apparently using Blandin to get to Menendez. Inside, I heard the bailiff calling the court to ord…
▶ 44:27
why don't you ask questions about the drug deliveries? As they were dragged out of the room. I remember that like it was yesterday. So what do you think? She asked, is there a story here and how long will it take to get it? I don't know. I'…
▶ 52:53
And again, my tipster's description proved accurate, perhaps even understated. I found a 1991 story from the San Francisco Chronicle and a 1986 San Francisco Examiner piece that strongly suggested Menendez, too, had been dealing in cocaine …
▶ 57:58
And I'd say, look, the minute I find you a Lutheran minister or a priest who was on the scene when they took delivery of 600 kilos of cocaine at an airbase in Contra land, I'll put them on the stand. But until then, you take what you can ge…