Documentation unveils the secret story of the agency's investigation of subliminal communication. An in-depth look at subliminal messages and the hysteria surrounding them, from the 1950s to the present day. The investigative journalist who wrote Dark Alliance speaks on on CIA ties to contra drug trafficking and related topics. Transcript, sound clips and photos. Members of the CIA's contra army in Nicaragua were running drugs into the United States, according to a special investigative report which ran in the San Jose Mercury News .
Online documents offer some chilling clues.
Sen. Helms' support of repressive dictatorships is a matter of public record, but few are aware of his connection to the Nicaraguan contra drug smuggling scandal. Flanked by federal protective police, CIA Director John Deutch faced the wrath of South Central Los Angeles residents regarding allegations that CIA assets smuggled cocaine into their neighborhoods. Rep. Maxine Waters has been on the forefront of calls for a thorough, independent investigations of covert CIA involvement with narcotics smugglers. The establishment media acted as propaganda organs for the CIA to help quash allegations that the agency was involved in the narcotics trade. An exhibit documenting the projects, propaganda and scorched earth of U.S. atomic weapons tests, from the irradiation of Bikini Atoll to human experimentation in Nevada.