Lost History

LamontCranston: A chapter by chapter account of every overt and covert action by America since WWII.

LamontCranston: The original dirty wars of the 1970s/1980s were in South and Central America, today they are in Central Asia and the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.

LamontCranston: The consequences of the comingling of personal financial interests and intelligence operations/politics.

LamontCranston: Even before the 1980s and the Dirty Wars many of the same people were involved in deep criminal enterprises, and expanded their interests at home.

LamontCranston: It was widely reported in the 1980s that Contra resupply planes were returning to the US with cocaine or marijuana. Nobody dug deeper than that. What Webb did was trace the specific dealers on the street to their suppliers and then to suppliers importers and specified how their operations were funding the Contra war - and how the CIA were working with these men and had to have known, perhaps even permitted.

LamontCranston: Published just as as Iran Contra revealed some of the events of the 1980s, this contemporary work looked back at an event that link many involved between the Vietnam War and the 1980s.

LamontCranston: Source for the name. Parry provides an account looking back at the Contra support operation against Nicaragua and the drug smuggling on the return flights.