The CIA was supposedly connected in the most recent flick AMERICAN GANGSTER with Denzell Washington but there are many noted and reported cases where our gov't or people in our gov't have smuggled in TONS and TONS of illegal narcotics to fund wars or foreing gov'ts.
Funny how things are so tied together...
The allegations resurfaced in 1996 when journalist Gary Webb published reports in the San Jose Mercury News,[66] and later in his book Dark Alliance,[67] detailing how Contras had distributed crack cocaine into Los Angeles to fund weapons purchases. These reports were initially attacked by various other newspapers, which attempted to debunk the link, citing official reports that apparently cleared the CIA.
The Wall Street Journal reported on January 29, 1997[68] on activities at the Mena, Arkansas airport allegedly involved then-governor Bill Clinton in a coverup of illegal drug-trading activity. The Wall Street Journal article goes on to state:
At the center of the web of speculation spun around Mena are a few undisputed facts: One of the most successful drug informants in U.S. history, smuggler
Barry Seal, based his air operation at Mena. At the height of his career he was importing as much as 1,000 pounds of cocaine per month, and had a personal fortune estimated at more than $50 million. After becoming an informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration, he worked at least once with the CIA, in a Sandinista drug sting. He was gunned down by Colombian hit men in Baton Rouge, La., in 1986; eight months later, one of his planes—with an Arkansas pilot at the wheel and Eugene Hasenfus in the cargo bay—was shot down over Nicaragua with a load of Contra supplies.
In 1998, CIA Inspector General Frederick Hitz published a two-volume report[69] that substantiated many of Webb's claims, and described how 50 contras and contra-related entities involved in the drug trade had been protected from law enforcement activity by the Reagan-Bush administration, and documented a cover-up of evidence relating to these activities. The report also showed that Oliver North and the NSC were aware of these activities. A report later that same year by the United States Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich also came to similar conclusions.
In 2004, Gary Webb was found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head, later determined to be self-inflicted.[70]