Dinges,J. Our Man in Panama. 1990
Dinges, John. Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States
and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms. New York: Random House, 1990. 403 pages.
Noriega's life is threaded through this account of corrupt Panamanian
politics and U.S.-Panama relations since the 1960s, with emphasis on the
period of Noriega's strongman leadership that concluded with George Bush's
invasion of December, 1989.
Noriega's career of drug trafficking and money laundering alternated
with periods of close cooperation with the DEA to arrest competitors. He
was preceded by Gen. Omar Torrijos, a populist whose rule was ended in a
suspicious 1981 plane crash that some believe was CIA-arranged. Noriega
enjoyed a long stint on the CIA payroll in return for many services, such
as helping the covert wars against Salvadoran rebels and his offer of
assistance to Oliver North. In 1984 the U.S. suppressed evidence of
Noriega's electoral fraud.
John Dinges is an editor at National Public Radio. His book went to
press three months after the invasion, so it isn't much help in figuring
out what led to this important event, and whether it was really intended
to help the Panamanians. Hopefully others will pick up where he left off.
ISBN 0-394-54910-4
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