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40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Bay of Pigs.md

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   - contra-war
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed 1961 CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro whose veterans became key operatives in Contra operations and drug trafficking networks during the 1980s.
+date: 1961-04-17
+location: "Cuba"
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 The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed 1961 [[Central Intelligence Agency]] operation to overthrow [[Fidel Castro]] in [[Cuba]] whose veterans became key operatives in Contra operations and drug trafficking networks during the 1980s. When the CIA needed a secret base to prepare for the invasion, Nicaraguan dictator [[Anastasio Somoza]] provided it. "The U.S. called me, and I agreed to have the bombers leave here and knock the hell out of the installations in Cuba, like a Pearl Harbor deal," Somoza said.[^1]
 

40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Dark Alliance.md

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ tags:
   - journalism
   - dark-alliance
 summary: Dark Alliance was a three-part investigative series published by the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996, exposing links between CIA-backed Contra forces and the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles.
+date: 1996-08-18
+location: "San Jose, California"
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 "Dark Alliance" was a three-part investigative series published by the [[San Jose Mercury News]] on August 18, 1996, written by [[Gary Webb]]. The series documented how a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of [[cocaine]] to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of [[Los Angeles]] and funneled millions in drug profits to the [[Contras|Contra]] army run by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]].[^1]
 

40 - EVENTS/CONTRA_WAR/Frogman Case.md

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ tags:
   - 1980s
   - Dark_Alliance_Investigation
 summary: Largest cocaine bust in West Coast history at the time (January 1983), which exposed direct links between Contra drug traffickers in San Francisco and the CIA, connections suppressed through direct CIA intervention.
+date: 1983-01-17
+location: "San Francisco, California"
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 The Frogman Case was the largest cocaine bust in the history of the [[United States]] West Coast at the time of its occurrence in January 1983. The case exposed direct links between cocaine traffickers in [[San Francisco]] and the [[Contras|Contra]] movement in [[Central America]], connections that were suppressed through [[Central Intelligence Agency]] intervention.[^1]