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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 [[crony|cronies]] threatening to expose the ongoing Contra-aid program run out of Arkansas, and was one factor, among many, forcing the shut down of the operation which eventually became known as [[Iran-Contra]].

Hubbell and Ward's scheme, approved by Clinton, was ultimately viewed by the CIA as [[blackmail]] by Clinton [[crony|cronies]] threatening to expose the ongoing Contra-aid program run out of Arkansas, and was one factor, among many, forcing the shut down of the operation which eventually became known as [[Iran-Contra]].

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