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2016 Postmortem

karynnj

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5. Never heard that, but the CIA allowed an AR airport to aid gun running

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 10, 2016, 03:09 AM

Mar 2016

For the Contras and drug running to support it. That was not speculation, but information from a Senate report that the CIA admitted a decade after the fact was correct.

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Bernie on Nicaragua and Cuba [View all] 99th_Monkey Mar 2016 OP

thank you Monkey! nt grasswire Mar 2016 #1

(need to research assertion made here in greater detail). Ken Burch Mar 2016 #2

Didn't know that. 99th_Monkey Mar 2016 #4

Never heard that, but the CIA allowed an AR airport to aid gun running karynnj Mar 2016 #5

And yet DU has its own brand of red-baiters: R. Daneel Olivaw Mar 2016 #3