Edgar Chamorro was a former [[FDN]] director who publicly confirmed that [[Norwin Meneses]] was a Contra leader involved in [[cocaine]] trafficking to fund the war. Chamorro told the San Francisco Examiner in 1986 that he and FDN director [[Frank Arana]] flew to [[San Francisco]] in October 1982 to select leaders for the [[Contras|Contra]] support committee.[^1] ### Public Confirmation Chamorro's public statements were among the earliest confirmations from a Contra insider that the drug trafficking and the Contra war were connected. His testimony corroborated what [[Carlos Cabezas]] and other witnesses had described about Meneses's dual role as both a Contra political leader and a major drug trafficker. The fact that a former FDN director was willing to speak publicly about the connection added significant weight to the allegations that the mainstream media had spent years dismissing.[^2] ### Footnotes [^1]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Ch. 2. [^2]: Gary Webb, *Dark Alliance*, Ch. 2.