November 2nd, 2011 at 7:04PM
The CIA admitted in 1998 that guerrilla armies it actively supported in Nicaragua were smuggling illegal drugs into the United States—drugs that were making their way onto the streets of inner-city black neighborhoods in the form of crack cocaine. The CIA also admitted that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to fund its covert war in Nicaragua. —

Michelle Alexander, from “The New Jim Crow.”  Michelle’s source for this information includes a book by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair called “Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press.”  She also cites two different newspaper articles and a 2004 magazine article written by Cockburn for The Nation.  Cockburn is a political journalist with a long list of credentials.  Also, the CIA’s complicity and active encouragement of the drug trade has been well documented. (via letterstomycountry)

Conspiracy theories my fucking ass.

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