During the mid-1980s,
North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms vigorously supported a Nicaraguan rebel group closely tied to narcotrafficking. He continued his support long after the drug link was widely known in Washington and reported in the national press.
What did Helms know about drug network undergirding these guerrilla fighters? When did he know it? And what was the extent of his involvement with the contra faction most tainted by cocaine? The Senator won't say, but Dossier has uncovered the facts.
(This article originally appeared in The Independent, a weekly paper based in Durham, North Carolina.)
