Cockburn,L. Out of Control. 1987
Cockburn, Leslie. Out of Control. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987.
287 pages.
During the contra war, Robert Owen wrote the following to Oliver North:
"These people [the contra leaders] don't know they are even in a war....
They think they are running a business."
Cockburn traces the contras from the fall of Nicaraguan dictator
Anastasio Somoza in 1979 to their collapse when Eugene Hasenfus parachuted
from his doomed airplane in 1986. Reagan, Bush, the Pentagon, the CIA and
NSC, arms merchants, narcotics merchants, money launderers, contra leaders,
and mercenaries all took a ride on the back of a propped up military
operation specializing in attacks on clinics, schools, and civilians.
Millions disappeared into secret bank accounts in this latest in a long
history of corrupt and violent covert actions.
The illegal and unconstitutional nature of the war is found in the
description of the Santa Elena, Costa Rica airfield where U.S. officials
arranged "the secret construction of a military base without authorization
from Congress in an avowedly neutral country to provide aid specifically
forbidden by Congress in an undeclared war." Cockburn also examines the
connection to Iran and the October Surprise. Out of control indeed.
-- Lanny Sinkin
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