The CIA's Fugitive Terrorist Luis Posada, a CIA-trained Cuban exile, hooked up with Oliver North's secret Nicaraguan contra supply operation in 1986. Before that Posada was a known international terrorist accused of bombing a civilian airliner that was headed for Havana. While in the Senate, Dole fought to hinder Lawrence Walsh's Iran-contra investigation and then urged President Bush to pardon Casper Weinberger in the last month of the Bush Presidency. Arafat Reveals 'October Surprise' Bid Arafat informed President Carter that the Republicans approached him in 1980 over October Surprise. The Pentagon now admits that the School of the Americas used manuals that advocated torture, murder and coercion for political ends.
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Good people are smeared. Reagan-Bush Crime Syndicate A decade ago, press reports disclosed that the Nicaraguan contra rebels were trafficking in cocaine to buy guns. But instead of going after the contras, the White House went after the story and the government investigators who tried to follow it up. When Newsweek columnist Joe Klein lied about his authorship of a novel and editor Maynard Parker published falsehoods in Newsweek to protect Klein's money-making secret, the magazine's 'standards of truth' responsible for hounding Adm. Jeremy Boorda over his right to wear a pin were suddenly less inviolable. The censorship of fomer ABC News' Paris bureau chief Pierre Salinger's memoirs, P.S. , which expunged his October Surprise conclusion, is another case of the history of the 1980 American Presidential election is Lost History.