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While federal investigations of the charges in "Dark Alliance" found no evidence that the CIA supplied or sold drugs in Los Angeles, they discovered the agency had withheld information about crimes by its contra allies from the Justice Department and Congress, and had recruited drug traffickers to run an undeclared war that took precedence over law enforcement. The CIA had one overriding priority: to oust Nicaragua's socialist Sandinista government, the agency's inspector general reported. "The objective of unseating the Sandinistas appears to have taken precedence over dealing properly with potentially serious allegations against those with whom the Agency was working."
"Dark Alliance" forced the CIA to admit its...