Comment on Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas!
Old_Dude@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A show called Snowfall touches on a CIA agent working to bring in cocaine to the US to fund anti-communist militias in South America. Good show overall. Not the best, but interesting.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s weird how people honestly learn more history from drama nowadays than actual school or something. And this isn’t a diss of any sort, I do that all the time; watch an interesting drama “based on reality” or something and afterwards I fact-check what things were actually historical and what weren’t.
Iran-Contra affair used to be pretty well known, actually, but there’s a clear generational gap and I’m other side of the gap. But I know it used to be known better. How do I know that? Well, from an American Dad bit, obviously (“Wow, I just learned while I was being entertained!”)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair
en.wikipedia.org/…/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca…
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love how completely bonkers the iran contra scheme was: we’re gonna use drug money to buy missiles and f14 parts for a country that imprisoned a bunch of our own people, because… reasons?
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
to be fair people doing what is essentially high-treason while having access to an unlimited supply of cocaine might lead some of them to do a bump or two for the stress, leading to a horrible negative feed-back loop.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
while simultaneously writing new laws to persecute cheap cocaine (crack) users militantly. it’s all so fucking nuts…
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
That whole fun idea was proposed by Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian/Israeli double agent