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In reply to the discussion: Key cocaine dealer in Poppy Bush's IranContra ops applauds choice of John Kerry for SoS [View all]starroute
(12,977 posts)14. Kerry wrote about this in "The New War"
Here's a link to a DU thread from 2004 with some excerpts from the introduction:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2029264
"In a fundamental sense, work on this book began over ten years ago. In 1985, soon after I entered the Senate, a Vietnam veteran called me with information about a group of arms-trafficking mercenaries he had met in Central America. I began investigating and stumbled onto Oliver North's secret network of soldiers of fortune, arms dealers, cocaine traffickers, and corrupt officials who later became the heart of the Iran Contra scandal. Ironically, as I write these words, that scandal has again drawn national attention, as people try to understand how some in the United States government could have allowed foreign policy objectives, like support for the Nicaraguan Contras, to facilitate the transport of illegal narcotics into the United States."
<snip>
"A decade ago I began to uncover portions of a common international infrastructure for transnational crime. I saw it created in changes in the global marketplace, in computerization and globalization, in the realm of illicit arms and espionage, in the networks of terrorism, in banking capitals and financial centers, in far-flung island resorts, and at ports and borders all over the world. I found that most people in the government did not have a clue as to the existance of this infrastructure or how it operated.
"In the years that followed, one investigation led to another. My staff and I interviews criminals from the inside of various U.S. prisons and found that they had had remarkable access to political figures in countries all over the world. I began tracking Colombian drug traffickers to the Bahamas and Haiti, and this work led me to the network of Manuel Noriega. Noriega's drug and intelligence network used some of the same people Olliver North had used in supplying the Nicaraguan Contras, another example of the common infrastructures of transnational crime. Some of Noriega's drug traffickers were, unfortunately, also the Contras', and for some of them were even employed by the United States."
More extensive chunks of the book are available through Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=vQPp9qLyeLoC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=%22In+a+fundamental+sense,+work+on+this+book+began+over+ten+years+ago.%22&source=bl&ots=1WAUygorhB&sig=ch3_MrLej8fKqttgLJMXQ-ixp64&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jYH1UPCOH-bF0AHxoYDAAQ&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22In%20a%20fundamental%20sense%2C%20work%20on%20this%20book%20began%20over%20ten%20years%20ago.%22&f=false
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Key cocaine dealer in Poppy Bush's IranContra ops applauds choice of John Kerry for SoS [View all]
blm
Jan 2013
OP
Uncovering IranContra also opened doors to S&L coverups and use of BCCI to fund global terrorism
blm
Jan 2013
#2
if IranContra and BCCI had the focused attention from DC media as Lewinsky case, BushInc would have
blm
Jan 2013
#16
This is my gripe about Clinton and his closeness w/Poppy Bush. However, if you scrutinize
blm
Jan 2013
#27
You should know by now, JR, that I was just being DU civil in using the word 'gripe' here. ;)
blm
Jan 2013
#33
I also see Poppy Bush's covert ops here dumping tons of cheap coke in urban neighborhoods as a way
blm
Jan 2013
#4
Some who studied this time aren't so sure that Poppy Bush even bothered to let Reagan know what
blm
Jan 2013
#7
Ricky Ross was one of the biggest distributors of all that cheap IranContra cocaine
blm
Jan 2013
#13
People forget how complicit corpmedia has been in the DC power elite's targeting of Kerry
blm
Jan 2013
#22
kerry was made a pariah like webb? please. did he lose his job? was he blacklisted? did he
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#23
how was he marginalized? he continued as a legislator, got committee appointments, became
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#49
The press regularly dismisses him as an empty suit and rarely mentions his 5 year investigation
blm
Jan 2013
#54
Once you wrap your brain around the facts in IranContra/BCCI everything else that happens in the
blm
Jan 2013
#34
I believe freshwest is right, many people are unaware of the details involved, and US media
blm
Jan 2013
#61