Jonathan Marshall & Peter Dale Scott 
Cocaine Politics [EPUB ebook] 
Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated edition

When the
San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency’s connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to light during the Vietnam War and then again by the Iran-Contra affair. Broad in scope and extensively documented,
Cocaine Politics shows that under the cover of national security and covert operations, the U.S. government has repeatedly collaborated with and protected major international drug traffickers. A new preface discusses developments of the last six years, including the
Mercury News stories and the public reaction they provoked.



When the
San Jose Mercury News ran a controversial series of stories in 1996 on the relationship between the CIA, the Contras, and crack, they reignited the issue of the intelligence agency’s connections to drug trafficking, initially brought to li

Tabla de materias

Preface to the 1998 Paperback Edition

Preface to the 1992 Paperback Edition

Acknowledgments


Introduction

1 The Kerry Report: The Truth but Not the Whole Truth


PART I RIGHT-WING NARCOTERRORISM, THE CIA,

AND THE CONTRAS

2 The CIA and Right-Wing Narcoterrorism in Latin America

3 Bananas, Cocaine, and Military Plots in Honduras

4 Noriega and the Contras: Guns, Drugs, and the

Harari Network

5 The International Cali Connection and the United States

6 The Contra Drug Connections in Costa Rica


PART II EXPOSURE AND COVER-UP

7 Jack Terrell Reveals the Contra-Drug Connection

8 North Moves to Silence Terrell

9 How the Justice Department Tried to Block the

Drug Inquiry

10 Covert Operations and the Perversion of Drug

Enforcement

11 The Media and the Contra Drug Issue

12 Conclusion

Notes

Names and Organizations

Index

Sobre el autor

Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (California, 1993). Scott is also a poet: in 2002, his ‘Seculum’ trilogy won a Lannan Literary Award. Jonathan Marshall is the Economics Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War (California, 1995).