Word: deas
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...with most smears, Reed's allegations are built on a slim foundation of truth. Before being gunned down in Louisiana by a squad of Colombian hit men in 1986, a convicted drug smuggler and dea informant named Barry Seal was involved in something fishy at the airport in Mena, a heavily wooded town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew...
Instead, defense lawyers are trying to show that Noriega was a loyal U.S. ally in the war on drugs by extracting testimony from a series of former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs and their high-ranking aides. One by one, the flattering "Dear General Noriega" letters sent by former DEA administrators came out in embarrassing procession last week. The authors claimed on the witness stand that they were merely being "diplomatic" and didn't really mean it when they praised Noriega for his "unprecedented" help and "long-standing support." In reality, groused former DEA administrators Peter Bensinger and John Lawn...
Still, various DEA chiefs and attaches admitted that Noriega's Panama Defense Forces had closed down the infamous Darien drug-refining lab of the Medellin cartel, confiscated drug-refining chemicals, helped catch drug traffickers and money launderers, and even closed a cartel-controlled bank. James Bramble, former head of the DEA office in Panama, testified that a P.D.F. tip led to the capture of the cartel's top money launderer, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, when he was in Florida to ship $5.5 million in drug proceeds to Panama. His arrest occurred at about the same time that the prosecution claims Noriega...
...betting around the courthouse is that only two racketeering counts against Noriega will stick. Meanwhile, the DEA reports, drug trafficking is again on the rise in Panama. U.S. investigators are looking into links between traffickers and the law firm of Guillermo Endara, who became Panama's President when Noriega was overthrown...
TRUDEAU'S LATEST three-week series, which began November 11 and will end November 30, has news reporter Rick Redfern investigating a tip from a DEA employee about Quayle's file. His efforts lead him to discover that the government has been covering up the file and suppressing those who have any knowledge of its existence or of Quayle's past drug...