[doug from upland]

I don’t want to believe that Bush was involved. Maybe he was just incompetent and couldn’t run the CIA without rogues doing what they did. How could such an operation occur without his knowledge?

[HAL9000]

The DEA and CIA busted Barry Seal and sent him on a smuggling mission to photograph the involvement of the Sandinistas. That pretty much sums up the involvement of the U.S. government in the cocaine scandal.

Of course, there is plenty of corruption by individuals in both agencies that the leadership are unaware of. But there is no credible evidence of any CIA program - official or unofficial - to import cocaine into the U.S. for distribution in order to raise money.