Does anyone remember Ollie North? Probably not. He was probably just a product of some odd conspiracy theory made up by drunken lefties in some shitty bar in a former communist country, right?

But, surprise, surprise, look at what AP reported:

"PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury awarded $1.5 million to two narcotics agents who claimed the Pennsylvania attorney general retaliated against them because they uncovered a drug-trafficking ring they said diverted profits to a CIA-backed Dominican presidential candidate. (...) McLaughlin and Micewski said they uncovered a drug-trafficking ring operating in Philadelphia, New York and other Eastern cities that funneled drug profits to the left-wing Dominican Revolutionary Party, which they claimed was supported by the CIA and State Department.

They said the U.S. government allowed the party's presidential candidate, Jose Francisco Pena Gomez, to return to the Dominican Republic after a 1995 fund-raising swing through New York with $500,000 in alleged drug profits.

CIA spokesman Tom Crispell on Tuesday dismissed the agents' allegations as "absurd."

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