This video from the USA is called How Crack Funded a CIA War: Gary Webb Interview on the Contras and Ronald Reagan (1996).
By Thomas Gaist in the USA:
CIA document details cover-up of drug trafficking by Contras
2 October 2014
An analysis written for the CIA‘s internal journal Studies in Intelligence, “Managing a Nightmare: CIA Public Affairs and the Drug Conspiracy Story,” attributed to Nicholas Dujmovic, reviews the efforts of the agency to contain a series of articles by journalist Gary Webb documenting relationships between the CIA and US-backed Contra rebels.
The article is part of a trove of CIA documents released on September 18 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
As shock troops in a US-backed war against the Nicaraguan government, the Contras carried out a reign of terror against Nicaragua‘s civilian population, killing tens of thousands. Support for the Contras by…
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