> "Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central Ameria" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991...which has some passages implying a close link between Kerry and the Christic Institute, a Cuban intelligence front linked to IPS.
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> Know anything about this group?
Here's a link to a transcript of a speech by their chief counsel Daniel Sheehan:
http://www.conspire.com/sheehan.html In the course of the speech Sheehan mentions:
"Senator John Kerry of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has interviewed under oath numerous witnesses. Indeed, we have put before them aircraft pilots who have directly testified under oath about traveling down to John Hull's ranch and back, bringing down guns and bringing back cocaine."
Page 152 of the source cited above ("Cocaine Politics") has a section which mentions:
On April 18 [1986], [Oliver] North's personal diary revealed that he was being kept abreast, however inaccurately, of developments both at the Christic Institute (which had not yet filed its suit) and the Foreign Relations Committee: 'Sheehan [the Christic Institute Attorney] investigating La Penca in consort with Sen. Kerry trying to get evidence linking RR [Ronald Reagan] to La Penca." [footnote cites "Kerry Report", i.e. Senate Committe on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, report, 'Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy', Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1989, 158] In the next seven months North's notebooks contain no less than seven separate references to the secret Kerry investigtion. . ." [cites "North diary; Kerry report, 158, 160; cf. 647, 830]
I believe the Christic Institute is also discussed in the footnotes of a 1990s follow-up report addressing the charges Christic levelled against the CIA regarding alleged drug dealing in Iran-Contra--I think I read it on the CIA website or somewhere like that a couple years ago, would need to check, but it's out there. The footnotes mention the intelligence community's concerns about Christic's ties to Nicaraguan/Cuban intelligence, if I recall correctly. Will try to dig up the exact references over the next few days and post them.