Was Colonel Oliver North involved in drugs deals ?

Question

I found some of his photos.

Answer 1

I don't know about his personally, but the whole Iran Contra deal did involve the Reagan adminstration in the drug trade according to the CIA's inspector general:

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In 1998, CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz published a two-volume report[35] that substantiated many of Webb's claims, and described how 50 contras and contra-related entities involved in the drug trade had been protected from law enforcement activity by the Reagan-Bush administration, and documented a cover-up of evidence relating to these activities. The report also showed that Oliver North and the NSC were aware of these activities. A report later that same year by the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich also came to similar conclusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_contra#Drug_money
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That article has links to the relevant congressional reports. In fairness to North, similar things have gone on with our involvement in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia.

There must be an MBA somewhere whose job is to figure out whether a business will be more profitable if done legally or illegally, and then makes recommendations to major investors.

The BCCI scandal showed a similar connection between not just politicians, big business, and the drug trade, but also similar ties to terrorists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_International

Answer 2

CuteJenna –

Get real, the Reagan administration was the first in US history to have people working in the Oval Office convicted of felonies (the current Bush administration was the second).

North and others were indeed involved in trading drugs for guns between Iran and Nicaragua.

Of course, Reagan was also instrumental in aiding Saddam Hussein (who, up until his death, still considered Reagan to be a great personal friend). Have you forgotten the lovey-dovey photo of Rumsfeld and Hussein from the 1980s? Reagan also sold the WMDs Saddam used to gas the Kurds (and Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war).

There truth is that you do not understand any of this, and you have no knowledge of the cultures, historical dynamics, or geopolitical realities of the4 Middle East – do you? You are just another ill-educated Bushbot who repeats the lunacy of your equally ignorant, and un-American, leadership.

Answer 3

Drugs were a side line.

Selling Hawk missile system spare parts as well as jet fighter parts to the Iranian government were the big ticket items used to fund the right wing war against Nicaragua.

Rumors of CIA/cocaine deals abound in late 20th century history. Good luck documenting the reality of those.

Answer 4

"...in the course of the early and mid Eighties, Lt. Colonel North grow to be purported to participate in organizing the transportation of cocaine and marijuana from the numerous web pages in critical and South united statesa. into united statesa. as a attitude to funding the Contra rebels..." i believe the operative observe right here's 'alleged.' North spoke in the previous Congress and wiped clean up the floor with them. So in simple terms what crime are you accusing him of that the judicial equipment has no longer? Edit: Scout... Sorry, yet North grow to be initially convicted of the accusations adverse to him, yet all his convictions were vacated in 1990. And he grow to be under no circumstances convicted of drug trafficking... against the law he vehemently denies to on the present time. So no be counted what you would possibly want to imagine of him, he's an innocuous guy interior the eyes of the regulation.

Answer 5

What's up with you and LtCol. North? You seem rather fixated today. Did you forget to take your medication? The Colonel was (and still is) a good man. I haven't seen him in years. Brings back some great memories.

Answer 6

No he wasn't.Liberals were working hard to undermine President Reagan like they do now with President Bush.Anything to slur the President,anything to embolden our enemies,anything to hurt America

Answer 7

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB113/index.htm

Pretty interesting reading.
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BobH