http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htmexcerpt:
Washington D.C., 26 February 2004 - Diaries, e-mail, and memos of Iran-contra figure Oliver
North, posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive, directly contradict his
criticisms yesterday of Sen. John Kerry's 1988 Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee report on
the ways that covert support for the Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s undermined the U.S. war on
drugs.
Mr. North claimed to talk show hosts Hannity & Colmes that the Kerry report was "wrong," that
Sen. Kerry "makes this stuff up and then he can't justify it," and that "The fact is nobody in the
government of the United States, going all the way back to the earliest days of this under Jimmy
Carter, ever had anything to do with running drugs to support the Nicaraguan resistance. Nobody
in the government of the United States. I will stand on that to my grave."
The Kerry subcommittee did not report that U.S. government officials ran drugs, but rather, that
Mr. North, then on the National Security Council staff at the White House, and other senior
officials created a privatized contra network that attracted drug traffickers looking for cover for
their operations, then turned a blind eye to repeated reports of drug smuggling related to the
contras, and actively worked with known drug smugglers such as Panamanian dictator Manuel
Noriega to assist the contras. The report cited former Drug Enforcement Administration head
John Lawn testifying that Mr. North himself had prematurely leaked a DEA undercover operation,
jeopardizing agents' lives, for political advantage in an upcoming Congressional vote on aid to the
contras (p.121).
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make sure to click on the link - the top of the page is Ollie's mug shot from his felony arrest.
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