Should you be so inspired, you can read through the Department of Justice's report on the CIA/Contra/Cocaine controversy. Just the conclusion is instructive--I wouldn't wish reading an entire government report on my worst enemy, which you are not. While the CIA does not come off squeaky clean, neither was anything found to suggest an official policy of drugrunning.

Naturally, you will assume that this entire report is bullshit, all part of the "Great Coverup," which pretty much destroys the potential for further rational argument in much the same way that "The Israelis Lie About Everything" pretty much puts the kibosh on debate on the Mideast crisis. I would bet you could point me to at least three websites that prove that half the inspection team were actually Gray aliens in disguise.

I'm no idiot, and I am well aware that our government, including the CIA, dealt with some pretty sleazy nations and people during the Cold War, with the overriding goal of keeping our own nation from becoming another Soviet Republic at best, or a Cambodia at worst. Was this the best way to go about it? That's a whole debate in itself, but I do know that after new laws forced the CIA to clean up its act and discard human resources that were less than pristine in their backgrounds, that we got blindsided in New York City.

Might not have happened if the CIA had kept a few more Mideastern thugs, sleazebags and goons on the payroll, but that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.