The Bush connection.

• Author: Nairn, Allan
• Position: 1987 - George Bush - Brief article

May 1987

In 1983, the office of Vice President George Bush sent a former CIA agent to Honduras to work as a combat adviser for the Nicaraguan Contras, according to U.S. intelligence sources and Contra leaders familiar with the mission. He was permitted to run his own semi-autonomous Contra support operation with the backing from the CIA station while remaining off the agency payroll and outside its lines of authority, note U.S. officials...