During the campaign year a parade of gun runners and drug dealers claimed that Bush's associates had known of schemes to help the contras with cocaine money.
Landslide - Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus p.392
Noam Chomsky on the contras - Is Peace At Hand?
The year 1988 also brought the startling revelation that William Webster's FBI had conducted a massive investigation of more than thirteen hundred organizations and individuals who were opposed to Ronald Reagan's South American policy. The main target was the Washington-based Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) but the investigation, in which fifty-two of the fifty-nine field offices participated, soon spread to include the National Council of Churches, the Maryknoll Sisters, the United Auto Workers, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
J. Edgar Hoover : The Man and the Secrets - Curt Gentry p.758
Whatever the reasons for starting the CISPES [Commitee In Solidarity with the People of El Salvador] investigation, twenty-seven months of agents' time and hundreds of thousands of tax dollars were spent on spying - and there is really no other word to use - on the political activities of thousands of citizens who didn't agree with what their government was doing.
p.268 The Bureau: Inside the Modern FBI - Diarmuid Jeffreys
Teicher suggests that the U.S. intelligence material was so sensitive that Iraq may have been able to "reverse engineer" its military defenses, to defend its own troops from the systems the United States was using to spy on Iran. After 1988, the Iraqis undertook a massive military program to harden and hide their command, control, and communications systems.
...The fact remains that from 1988 until the opening of the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi military underwent a massive program to make sure that its major communications links would remain unsevered in the case of war.
Eclipse - Mark Perry p.387
After tracking down the fugitive perpetrators of the December 21, 1988, PanAm explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland, we have yet to win their extradition.
When the Eagle Screams - Stephen Bowman p.62
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