#Contras

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Barry Seal Adler Berriman 'Barry' Seal (1939-1986) was a Baton Rouge, Louisiana pilot and the Medellín Cartel's chief U.S. cocaine distributor, who flew an estimated 56 tons of cocaine worth $3-5 billion before flipping as a DEA informant in 1984, providing photographic evidence of Sandinista officials loading cocaine at a Nicaraguan airfield; he was assassinated by cartel hitmen in February 1986, and his C-123K cargo plane was subsequently used in the Oliver North Contra supply network before being shot down over Nicaragua with Eugene Hasenfus aboard.
Mike Harari Mossad officer who led the 1973 Lillehammer team and became Manuel Noriega's associate in Panama, named in 1988 Senate testimony for arms dealing through false end-user certificates.
Webster Hubbell Rose Law Firm partner and associate attorney general who resigned in 1994 over his billings, was paid over 500,000 dollars by seventeen supporters of the president, among them the Lippo Group, and went to prison.

Kerry Committee Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee under John Kerry that investigated drugs and foreign policy in 1987-88 and BCCI from 1988 to 1992, with a staff of two attorneys and no travel budget.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senate standing committee since 1816, hearing diplomatic nominations and CIA testimony on Chile, whose Kerry subcommittee reported in 1988 that the State Department had selected companies owned by drug traffickers to supply the Contras.

Latin America The hemisphere south of the United States as the vault records it: Rockefeller's private diplomacy, the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, labor fronts, bankers and the drug and arms traffic of the Contra years.