Nicaragua’s Drug Connection Exposed as Hoax
The media showed little interest when subcommittee chairman Hughes recently disclosed he had new evidence that the entire Sandinista connection was a US intelligence fabrication
Media Censor CIA Ties With Medellin Drug Cartel
A key money-launderer for the Medellin cocaine cartel told Congress in February that he worked with the Central Intelligence Agency, but this information was not reported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the three major networks, even though all covered the hearings.
Scott Armstrong on the Media & Contragate
On media coverage of the Iran/Contra hearings: “Those media that reported the government’s lies as facts are obliged to assign someone to scrutinize the conflicting evidence and correct their previous misstatements.”
Seymour Hersh on Government & Media
FAIR: How would you compare Watergate and Contragate, and the role of the media in each scandal? HERSH: If you consider Nixon’s first term, there’s an obvious analogy with the first six years of the Reagan administration. Nixon was able to bomb Cambodia relentlessly for 14 months. He wiretapped 17 American citizens, including Marvin Kalb, […]
Washington’s Worst Kept Secret
Since 1985, reports linking Contra arms suppliers to cocaine smuggling have run in progressive publications and a few mainstream outlets. But CBS West 57th’s well-documented segment on the CIA/Contra drug connection (4/6/87) was the first serious network probe.
