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The Salem Press went on to report that In December 1982, the United States Congress made a statement saying, “…funds it appropriated could not be used for the purpose of overthrowing the Nicaraguan government." Despite the disagreement between the U.S. congress and President Reagan, he signed the law, which in section 793 declares that “none of the funds may be used for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua.”
On August 18, 1996, the San Jose Mercury News uncovered a conspiracy involving the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras. The Conspiracy’s claim was to immerse the African-American inner-city neighborhoods of crack cocaine and those profits would go towards the Contras. Due to the amount of cocaine being brought in, African- Americans stated the drug had harmed their communities. community, we own no coca). fields; we own no airplanes; yet cocaine abounds among us, and we are its chief victims." According to Miller, Abraham H.
"CIA secretly funded millions of dollars over the past years to the Contra rebels.."