"The CIA admitted in 1998 that guerilla armies it actively
supported in Nicaragua were smuggling illegal drugs into the United States - drugs that
were making their way onto the streets of inner-city black
neighborhoods in the form of crack cocaine. The CIA also admitted
that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement
efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to
fund its covert war in Nicaragua." Michelle Alexander in The New Jim
Crow pg 6