Theprodigalone said
Thats the point they haven't been charged at all and its obvious crimes are you slow has the cia been charged with selling cocaine and putting it in the black community does that mean the cia isnt guilty
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The CIA didn't sell coke though and I don’t know why people always get that story wrong.
There was a couple of cartels
already selling coke. They were sympathetic to some political causes in Nicaragua (The Contras). They took the profits from their very successful cocaine business and used it to fund those political movements. The CIA's involvement was facilitating those payments so they could purchase weapons.
This is straigh from Gary Webb's original reporting about it.
For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. [This drug ring] opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles [and, as a result,] the cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America.
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Some quotes from the guys that sold the drugs.
In 1985, another Contra leader "told U.S. authorities that his group was being paid $50,000 by Colombian traffickers for help with a 100-kilo cocaine shipment and that the money would go 'for the cause' of f*ghting the Nicaraguan government."
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On March 16, 1986, the San Francisco Examiner published a report on the "1983 seizure of 430 pounds of cocaine from a Colombian freighter" in San Francisco; it said that a "cocaine ring in the San Francisco Bay area helped finance Nicaragua's Contra rebels." Carlos Cabezas, convicted of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, said that the profits from his crimes "belonged to ... the Contra revolution." He told the Examiner, "I just wanted to get the Communists out of my country." Julio Zavala, also convicted on trafficking charges, said "that he supplied $500,000 to two Costa Rican-based Contra groups and that the majority of it came from cocaine trafficking in the San Francisco Bay area, Miami and New Orleans."
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If the CIA wasn't involved the cartel would have continued to sell their coke and continued to be very successful like every other cartel was. The CIA was just one recipient of the profits.
Dirty business all around and I wouldn't even be mad about the CIA "selling drugs" if not for the hypocrisy around the war on drugs.