Ep. 40: Criminals In Action

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Nebulous Media

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Americans have a love-hate relationship with the CIA. On the one hand, we revere and glamorize the agents who fight for our country in the shadows. On the other hand, we are shocked when we learn the CIA plays dirty. In this episode, Eli and veteran intelligence journalist Mark Hosenball discuss how the CIA looked the other way as the Contras they supported in Nicaragua trafficked cocaine to fund their war against the Sandinistas. Time Stamps: 00:29 Monologue 26:25 Interview with Mark Hosenball Questions? Comments? Ideas? Contact us at [email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the re-education.
0:02.5	Today's topic is about the CIA and its involvement with the drug traffickers that helped bring cocaine to America before the crack epidemic.
0:10.0	The CIA, and many in Washington, denied this story for years, but eventually the truth came out.
0:16.0	My guest is veteran national security journalist Mark Hosenpahl.
0:20.0	Stay tuned. This is a really great episode.
0:29.4	Finally, I want to say to you that as of today, we have no evidence of a conspiracy by the CIA
0:36.2	to engage in encouraging drug traffickers in Nicaragua
0:40.0	or elsewhere in Latin America during this or any other period.
0:44.0	However, I am going to wait and see what the results are of this Inspector General's
0:49.7	investigation.
0:51.7	Let me once again thank you for the courtesy of listening to me. My message is simple.
0:57.0	The men and women of the CIA must obey the law and we are committed to protecting American
1:01.3	families from the drug lords that poison our children. CIA fights drugs. CIA does not encourage
1:09.0	drugs.
1:10.0	We just heard from John Deutsch, the former CIA director who in 1996 took the extraordinary
1:15.6	step of traveling to a high school gymnasium in south central Los Angeles to address
1:21.5	members of that community about a recent investigative series in the San Jose Mercury News.
1:27.6	It claimed their city's biggest crack dealer was getting his product from the Nicaraguan
1:33.6	Contras, a guerrilla army in the 1980s that was supplied and supported by the CIA.
1:40.1	Accusations underscore the word accusations that are nothing short of explosives.
1:45.7	They are that the CIA knowingly and intentionally did what amount to pump crack cocaine into Los Angeles to help fund rebels in Nicaragua.
1:55.7	Whether or not these claims prove true, the anger they produced is very real.
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