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After this, since the Contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, [47] opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U.S. public was not supportive of the Contras, [49] the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its Contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of ...
U.S. policy on Nicaragua began to favor support for anti-Sandinista "Contras", because most people involved in the U.S. intelligence operations, including Richard Nixon feared that "defeat for the rebels would probably lead to a violent Marxist guerrilla movement in Mexico and in other Central American countries."
In the column Ceppos continued to defend parts of the article, writing that the series had "solidly documented" that the drug ring described in the series did have connections with the Contras and did sell large quantities of cocaine in inner-city Los Angeles. But, Ceppos wrote, the series "did not meet our standards" in four areas.
The CIA began to support the contras by setting up and coordinating a communications and logistical system. The CIA supplied aircraft and the construction of airfields in the Honduran border area next to Nicaragua. This allowed the contras to carry out deep penetration raids into the more developed and populated areas of the Nicaraguan interior.
The Report concluded that "it is clear that individuals who provided support for the Contras were involved in drug trafficking, the supply network of the Contras was used by drug trafficking organizations, and elements of the Contras themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug traffickers." [31]
The Iran-Contra Affair also involved Israel The 1980s scheme to sell missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages in Lebanon is a consequential moment because it nearly ...
The United States began to support Contra activities against the Sandinista government by December 1981, with the CIA at the forefront of operations. [109] The CIA provided the Contras with planning and operational direction and assistance, weapons, food, and training, in what was described as the "most ambitious" covert operation in more than ...
Elon Musk is easily the world's wealthiest man, with a net worth topping $300 billion. But even he stands to make more money from his association with the federal government after placing a ...