Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (California, 1993). Scott is also a poet: in 2002, his "Seculum" trilogy won a Lannan Literary Award. Jonathan Marshall is the Economics Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War (California, 1995).

• Preface to the 1998 Paperback EditionPreface to the 1992 Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Kerry Report: The Truth but Not the Whole TruthPART I RIGHT-WING NARCOTERRORISM, THE CIA,AND THE CONTRAS2 The CIA and Right-Wing Narcoterrorism in Latin America3 Bananas, Cocaine, and Military Plots in Honduras4 Noriega and the Contras: Guns, Drugs, and theHarari Network5 The International Cali Connection and the United States6 The Contra Drug Connections in Costa RicaPART II EXPOSURE AND COVER-UP7 Jack Terrell Reveals the Contra-Drug Connection8 North Moves to Silence Terrell9 How the Justice Department Tried to Block theDrug Inquiry10 Covert Operations and the Perversion of DrugEnforcement11 The Media and the Contra Drug Issue12 ConclusionNotesNames and OrganizationsIndex