Democracy Now : February 5 : Cia And The Global Drug Trade| Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - CONTENT: Pt.1. Political headlines (3:00) -- pt.2. The CIA and the global drug trade| discussion about last year's revelations in the San Jose Mercury News about the role of the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contra Rebels in California's crack cocaine trade in the 1980's| guest Alfred McCoy, professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin Madisonm and the author of the acclaimed study, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade. (16:00) -- pt.3. More on the CIA and the global drug trade (19:00) -- - Broadcast on February 5, 1997.
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