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" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.
* CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US
Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras.
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, Seven Stories Press.
The first challenge to the powerful new army came from the Contras, groups of Somoza's National Guard who had fled to Honduras organized and funded by CIA elements involved in cocaine trafficking in Central America.
* CIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US
A CIA manual for training the Nicaraguan Contras in psychological operations, leaked to the media in 1984, entitled " Psychological Operations in Guerrilla War ".
* Gary Webb – investigative journalist whose work disclosed the role of the CIA, via the Nicaragua Contras, in bringing crack cocaine into Los Angeles
The largest scandal of the years was the Iran-Contra affair, wherein weapons had been sold to Iran, and the proceeds used by the CIA to aid Contras in Nicaragua.
It reversed ex-President Jimmy Carter's official condemnation of the Argentine junta for human rights abuses and allowed the CIA to collaborate with Argentine intelligence in funding the Contras.
In 1982 the CIA, with assistance from the Argentine national intelligence agency, organized and financed right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua, known as the Contras.
Benjamin Ernest " Ben " Linder ( July 7, 1959 – April 28, 1987 ), was an American engineer who was working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua when he was killed by the Contras, an affiliation of rebel groups funded by the U. S. government / CIA.
In 1998, he published his first book, with Cockburn, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history of the CIA's ties to drug gangs from World War II to the Mujahideen and Nicaraguan Contras.
Nonetheless, Wilson, Clines and Theodore Shackley ( another former CIA officer ) were all working together with Secord in the summer of 1984 when Oliver North approached Secord to ask for help in buying arms for the " Contras ", a group of armed rebels then trying to overturn the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
* November 23: The U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) begins to support anti-Sandinista Contras.
Jalapa, which is located on the border of Honduras, was the location of two failed attempts of the CIA funded Contras to overthrow the city and install a provisional government, in late 1982 and December 1983, in which the CIA informed the contras would be immediately recognized by the United States Government.

Contras and .
* 1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U. S .- funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
The contras ( some references use the capitalized form, " Contras ") is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s.
Senator John Kerry's 1988 Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra drug links concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.
The Reagan administration's support for the Contras continued to stir controversy well into the 1990s.
Edgar Chamorro, a former Contra and member of the FDN's political directorate who later became a critic of the Contras, stated that during his time with the Contras, he frequently received reports about atrocities committed by Contra troops against civilians and against Sandinista prisoners: " As time went on, I became more and more troubled by the frequent reports I received of atrocities committed by our troops against civilians and against Sandinista prisoners.
The number of murders or unlawful killings the Contras were involved in, was estimated at around 500.
The Contras have killed, tortured, raped, mutilated and abducted hundreds of civilians they suspect of sympathizing with the Sandinistas.
Similarly, Human Rights Watch pointed out that " the Contras systematically engage in violent abuses ... so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war " in a 1989 report.
Nevertheless, the Contras remained tenuously encamped within Honduras and weren't able to hold Nicaraguan territory.
Political opposition groups were splintered and the Contras began to experience defections, although United States aid maintained them as a viable military force.
* Bermudez, Enrique, " The Contras ' Valley Forge: How I View the Nicaraguan Crisis ", Policy Review magazine, The Heritage Foundation, Summer 1988.
With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua.
( 1990 ) The Contras, 1980 – 1989: A Special Kind of Politics.
* Persons, David E. ( 1987 ) A Study of the History and Origins of the Nicaraguan Contras.
*" The Contras ' Valley Forge: How I View the Nicaragua Crisis ", by Enrique Bermúdez ( with Michael Johns ), Policy Review magazine, Summer 1988.
* The Contras and U. S. Funding from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives

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