Iran-Contra and the Cocaine Route: When a Covert War Met Flights No One Wanted to Own
The covert effort supporting the Contras in Nicaragua used transport networks, front companies, and off-books money. Investigation records show why drug-trafficking allegations cannot be reduced to one simple denial.
Read in Vietnamese →In 1986, a cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua. It carried weapons, money, communications equipment, and one surviving crew member, Eugene Hasenfus. The crash exposed a network the U.S. government had tried to keep out of public view: people connected to the National Security Council, private transport firms, secret airfields, money outside normal budgets, and Contra forces fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government. This became the Iran-Contra scandal, investigated for years by Congress, an independent prosecutor, and the CIA.
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