“The CIA Collaborated With Drug Traffickers” Journalist EXPOSES Truth On Iran-Contra | The Connect

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Johnny Mitchell

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4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Cookie Hood grew up in both the US and Nicaragua. At a young age she was a socialite and became close with the people that would not only fight in Nicaragua's revolution, but also traffic drugs to help the CIA fund a proxy war that ended in one of the biggest scandals in American history. When she became a journalist for CBS during the Iran-Contra conflict, those old contacts came in handy to help expose secrets of both the American and the Nicaraguan governments! Subscribe to Cookie's Platforms 👇👇👇 https://journalistapodcast.com/ Support our sponsors! PrizePicks: https://www.prizepicks.com/ Promo Code: CONNECT Support the Patreon: patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I said, you know, my friends and family, they all know I'm wild and crazy.
0:04.6	No one is going to believe.
0:07.3	I died by a firing squad.
0:09.6	What's up, you guys?
0:10.6	Today's guest is Cookie Hood.
0:12.4	Cookie was a war correspondent for CBS during the 1980s.
0:16.9	She was one of the journalists who first broke the Iran-Contra scandal.
0:21.0	She was also married to a drug trafficker from Nicaragua, who was, get this, involved with Freeway Rick Ross and the CIA in the scandal that erupted around crack cocaine and South Central during the 1980s.
0:35.9	This was an amazing episode. She talks all about her time,
0:39.8	married to a drug trafficker, how Pablo Escobar was at her wedding, all the way to the stories
0:45.9	of her being a war correspondent during the 1980s, getting smeared by the CIA, truly a historical
0:53.9	figure.
0:54.9	This is an amazing episode, you guys.
0:56.6	Enjoy it.
0:57.2	And of course, go check out our Patreon episode we did with her
1:00.4	where she spills the secrets of the CIA and Freeway Rick Ross.
1:05.4	Go over to patreon.com slash The Connect show.
1:08.6	Enjoy this episode with Cookie Hood right here on The Connect.
1:11.6	I knew that it was going to be the biggest story of my life.
1:15.1	What I didn't know is that I was a part of that story, personally, through the drugs.
1:22.7	That's when I see the lights behind me start to flash.
1:25.5	And I didn't even think.
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