On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Brad Dolan wrote:
Goofy guy agrees with Morris about X, therefore Morris' well-documented claims about X and Y are false?
Lots of footnotes to "confidential interview" do not make a valid study. How many "well-documented" studies of the Kennedy assassination and UFO sightings have you read? I followed this wild goose chase to exhaustion back in 1986-7. I've forgotten most of it, but I'm sure I have some notes and maybe some tapes lying around. Yes, some contras and some sandinistas and some martistas and *lots* of the senderos and M-19 ran drugs. That's what happens when you criminalize a political movement -- political figures become criminals in order to survive. (When the crime they're involved is simply free trade in criminalized agricultural products, it just adds another layer of irony.) There's a kernel of truth and plausibility to most conspiracy theories, including this one. (It's a big mistake to say *all* conspiracy theories.) However, the money involved was rather small, the process was basically skew to politics (both sides did it all), and I have never been convinced that the CIA -- or even North's coterie in the NSC, which as you know ran a number of ops that the CIA would never have gone for -- was in on it. (ObConspiracy: H. Ross Perot actually was involved in funneling money to the contras. He was rather open and proud of it. Is he mentioned in Morris's book?) -rich