"The Contras did not receive all of their finances from arms sales, but also through CIA and Contra's cocaine trafficking in the US."
Which started the secret spying on the American Fort Bragg soldiers who set up the electronic towers for radar defense all through Central and South America, so American military jets could fly undiscovered taking guns down and bringing cocaine back.
See Operation Watchtower and Operation George Orwell.
A VERY sordid story.
And the Bush administration tried putting the convicted felon John Poindexter in charge of the new US domestic spying program...Office of Information Awareness. And the young people today don't have clue about this.
It was one of my finer studies a couple of decades ago. The same players were back on stage, front row center. Actually, they never went away; just re-organized. Rats on a sinking ship hopefully by now.