Central Intelligence Agency

NYT’s Belated Admission on Contra-Cocaine

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | October 4, 2014 Nearly three decades since the stories of Nicaraguan Contra-cocaine trafficking first appeared in 1985, the New York Times has finally, forthrightly admitted the allegations were true, although this belated acknowledgement comes in a movie review buried deep inside Sunday’s paper. The review addresses a new film, […]

The CIA Does Las Vegas

By Bill Blunden | CounterPunch | August 1, 2014 One evening over drinks in Ethiopia, during his tour as a CIA officer back in the 1960s, John Stockwell expressed reservations about covert operations to a senior fellow officer named Larry Devlin. Stockwell worried that the CIA was infiltrating governments and corrupting leaders to no useful […]