{"product_id":"out-of-control-the-story-of-the-reagan-administrations-secret-war-in-nicaragua-the-illegal-arms-pipeline-and-the-contra-drug-connection","title":"Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Arms Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cockburn, Leslie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Brand: Atlantic Monthly Pr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eUsed Book in Good Condition\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 287\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePartNumber:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871131692_Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 01-12-1987\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e In the fall and winter of 1986 the American people learned that their government had secretly financed and directed a war in Central America at a time when it was barred from doing so.\n\nThe official investigations have concentrated on the authority for and the legality of this activity. But equally important are questions of who was actually fighting this war and what they were actually doing.\n\nOut of Control supplies the answer. Leslie Cockburn has been following the trail of Lieut. Col. Oliver North and his secret army since 1984 as a producer for CBS News. In the course of innumerable trips to Central America and elsewhere, she found the foot soldiers of this secret army and the men who controlled them. They told of an arms pipeline running directly from the United States to the front lines of the contra war. They told of a contra leadership more interested in their own personal welfare than in fighting the war. They told of plots to provoke direct United States military intervention in Nicaragua. They told of secret meetings to plan assassinations. Most shockingly of all, members of the network laid out the intimate connection between the secret army and narcotics, and how the very same people had been simultaneously shipping arms, shipping drugs, and receiving subsidies of United States taxpayers' money.\n\nThe American people did not know about these activities. American government agencies did know, and strove to prevent the facts from being revealed.\n\nOut of Control tells how people risked careers, liberty, and their lives to try to reveal the truth. Some of these people paid a bitter price, abandoned by superiors who found their knowledge inconvenient and embarrassing. At least one of them paid the ultimate price.\n\nAs the story moves between the jungles of Central America, the Miami underworld, and Washington, D.C., we learn for the first time the extraordinary details of the secret war in Nicaragua.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871131690\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eModel:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871131692_Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedLikeNew\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brand: Atlantic Monthly Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757969146157,"sku":"U000001440","price":16.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/5853\/5981\/files\/91ul3T1E8EL.jpg?v=1768504678","url":"https:\/\/silkroadstore.us\/products\/out-of-control-the-story-of-the-reagan-administrations-secret-war-in-nicaragua-the-illegal-arms-pipeline-and-the-contra-drug-connection","provider":"Silk Road Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}