Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.fan.dan-quayle,alt.politics.clinton
From: [g--r--t] at [Ingres.COM] 
Subject: Ollie North and the Contra drug connection
Date: 17 Jun 94 22:49:47 GMT

[from today's Associated Press wire]

	"Oliver North knew that large shipments of cocaine were being
 smuggled into the United States by mercenary pilots he had hired
to assist Contras in Nicaragua, a former federal agent said yesterday.
	"Celerino (Cele) Castillo, who was a supervisory agent for
the Drug Enforcement Administration in El Salvador, said in a telephone
interview that he had informed a U.S. ambassador to El Salvador as well
 as then-Vice President George Bush in 1986 about the drug smuggling
in North's Contra supply operation.
	"No action was taken, Castillo said.
	 "Oliver North was running the operation. His pilots were known
drug traffickers listed in government files and these people were
being given U.S. visas," Castillo said.
	"He first gave his account to the Texas Observer, a magazine
that carries the story in today's issue. He also has written a book,
due out next month, on the allegations.

[deletia to save bandwidth, including North's 1989 conviction for
 obstruction of justice]

	"North, the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat from
Virginia, denied Castillo's allegations through an aide.
	"They were running large quantities of cocaine to the United
States via Ilopango (El Salvador)," Castillo said, adding that the 
shipments were flown to Florida, Texas and California."

[details of Castillo's meeting with Bush deleted]

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