The House Banking Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Leach, is delving into possible shipments into Mena airport in Western Arkansas during Bill Clinton's governorship. Abundant investigations over the past decade have detailed the CIA's role in drug smuggling through out Central America. Indeed from the earliest days of the Central Intelligence Agency, there have been a perfectly understandable alliance with drug smugglers, whether in Sicily or Southeast Asia or Afghanistan. The CIA needs local criminals for its purposes. Criminal associations market drugs.
Drug money is hard to trace.
Each of these companies were operated by known narco-traffickers. If you want to move arms or munitions in Latin America, the established networks are owned by drug cartels. It has lent itself to the purposes of terrorists, of saboteurs, of spies, insurgents and subversions. After his death, the writer Roger Morris was able to inspect Seal's files, which contained abundant evidence of his work with U.S. agencies. Meanwhile three former DEA agents who worked in Latin America in the 80's have filed suit against the CIA and that they have been subject to continual harassment, because of their direct knowledge of the CIA's direct role in drug smuggling.