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18 lines
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category: "Authors & Journalists"
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tags:
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- person
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- journalist
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- contra-war
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summary: Martha Honey was a New York Times stringer in Costa Rica who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under FBI surveillance for her reporting.
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Martha Honey was a [[New York Times]] stringer in [[Costa Rica]] who pursued the Contra drug story and was placed under [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] surveillance for her reporting. Honey and her husband [[Tony Avirgan]], an ABC cameraman, were among the journalists who investigated the connections between the [[Contras]] and drug trafficking on Costa Rica's Southern Front.[^1]
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### Under Surveillance
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The FBI's decision to place Honey under surveillance revealed the government's willingness to monitor journalists who investigated the Contra-drug connection. Honey's reporting from Costa Rica documented the overlapping worlds of covert operations, drug trafficking, and Contra political activity on the Southern Front. The surveillance of a journalist by federal law enforcement illustrated the lengths to which the government went to suppress information about its relationship with drug traffickers.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 18.
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[^2]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion.* Seven Stories Press, 1998. Ch. 18.
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