Kerry Committee
US Senate subcommittee,US/Congress/Hearing
| Kerry Committee link () | |
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| Membership | John Kerry, Daniel P. Moynihan, Mitch McConnell, Frank H. Murowski |
| Their finding, that the CIA was involved in both cocaine and marijuana trafficking, was more or less ignored. | |
The Kerry Committee (formally the " Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations") was a US Senate subcommittee during the 100th United States Congress that examined the problems that drug cartels and drug money laundering in South and Central America and the Caribbean posed for American law enforcement and foreign policy.
Origin
In April 1986, John Kerry and Senator Christopher Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, proposed that hearings be conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding charges of Contra involvement in cocaine and marijuana trafficking. Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, the Republican chairman of the committee, agreed to conduct the hearings.
CIA suborning
Al Martin wrote that "Initially I began to cooperate with the Kerry Commission until I realized that chief committee investigator, Jack Blum, and his staff, Jack Terrell and Ralph Maestre, were being paid by the CIA to suborn the Kerry Commission investigation. They were also being used as a front to elicit information from potential witnesses for threat assessment."[1]
Outcome
The finding that the CIA was involved in both cocaine and marijuana trafficking was more or less ignored.Template:Cn
