Martha Honey
Martha Honey was a New York Times stringer in Costa Rica who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under FBI surveillance for her reporting.
Martha Honey was a New York Times stringer in Costa Rica who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under Federal Bureau of Investigation surveillance for her reporting. Honey and her husband Tony Avirgan, an ABC cameraman, were among the journalists who investigated the connections between the Contras and drug trafficking on Costa Rica's Southern Front.1
Under Surveillance
The FBI's decision to place Honey under surveillance revealed the government's willingness to monitor journalists who investigated the Contra-drug connection. Honey's reporting from Costa Rica documented the overlapping worlds of covert operations, drug trafficking, and Contra political activity on the Southern Front. The surveillance of a journalist by federal law enforcement illustrated the lengths to which the government went to suppress information about its relationship with drug traffickers.2
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