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Arkansas Development Finance Authority (view source)
Revision as of 00:44, October 19, 2016
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ADFA was intended to be an elaborate [[money laundering]] scheme for drugs brought into the United States which had been traded for weapons to aid the Nicaraguan Contras in round trips from Mena, Arkansas to Central America. The Contras were fighting the [[Soviet]] and [[Cuba]]n backed [[Sandinistas]] during the war in [[El Salvador]]. The White House had specifically been denied funding requests by Congress to overthrow the [[Nicaragua]]n [[communist]] regime which had been fomenting violent [[revolution]] outside its borders.
ADFA was intended to be an elaborate [[money laundering]] scheme for drugs brought into the United States which had been traded for weapons to aid the Nicaraguan Contras in round trips from Mena, Arkansas to Central America. The Contras were fighting the [[Soviet]] and [[Cuba]]n backed [[Sandinistas]] during the war in [[El Salvador]]. The White House had specifically been denied funding requests by Congress to overthrow the [[Nicaragua]]n [[communist]] regime which had been fomenting violent [[revolution]] outside its borders.
Hubbell and Ward's scheme, approved by Clinton, was ultimately viewed by the CIA as a [[blackmail]] by Clinton [[cronies]] for the ongoing Contra aid operation run out of Arkansas, and was one factor, among many, forcing the shut down of the operation which eventually became known as [[Iran-Contra]].
==See also==
==See also==