Democracy Now : October 24 : Senate Hearings On The Cia/ Crack Connection / Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - A daily election year program which takes an in-depth look at the political landscape and interviews visionaries from all walks of life, including members of grassroots organizations who challenge the status quo. - CONTENT: pt.1. Political headlines (3:00) -- pt.2. Opening of the Senate Intelligence Committee Hearings on the charges raised in an investigative series by the San Jose Mercury News which charged the CIA in the 1980's helped facilitate the flow of crack cocaine into the black community of LA and profits went to the contras (16:00) -- pt.3. guest Jack Blum, former Specical Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations SubCommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations which held hearings on the Contra-Cocaine connection in the 1980's (19:00) -- pt.4. More with Jack Blum| commedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory's comments on the hearings (17:00) - Satellite, October 24, 1996.
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