To the editors:
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Conspiracy theories always abound, and all presidents in recent times have been the object of some. But probably never before has an incumbent had so many serious charges leveled at him backed by considerable evidence. The evidence is overwhelming that the CIA, going back to the sixties, engaged in the lucrative heroin trafficking out of Southeast Asia in order to raise money to finance covert operations for which the Congress was unwilling to appropriate funds. The day after George Bush gave his “war on drugs” speech in 1989, various public radio stations broadcasted a half-hour, documentary-style program alleging that this drug-trafficking continued during the time Mr. Bush was head of the CIA, with his probable knowledge and consent.
Furthermore, there is circulating a recently made film (not shown on national television) entitled Cover-up, which alleges as per the Iran-Contra scandal, that American weapons began flowing to Iran, not in the mid-1980s, but as soon as Mr. Reagan came into office in 1981. There is a recently published book which also makes this claim.
Paul Dickman
