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TIL that the CIA, under the Reagan Administration, sold nuclear weapons to Iran and began selling Cocaine within the US to fund the Contras in their war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, all this despite Congress officially prohibiting the support of the Contras.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
en.wikipedia.org

Posted Jun 24, 2012, 1:18 AM UTC

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