Buzzsaw
Episode 216
NARCOS: What Netflix Got Wrong + The Real CIA Stories Behind the Show
NARCOS tells a story of Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel in a cops and robbers drama, but the true CIA connection to the cocaine industry that reached to the White House runs much deeper than the TV show. The far-right “Cocaine Coup” in South America, Nicaragua’s revolution, and Oliver North and the CIA’s special relationships with Manuel Noreaga are exposed by journalist Robert Parry. Follow the trail of shadow money and trace the decades-long cover-up by both government and media in this uncensored Buzzsaw interview, hosted by Sean Stone.
Episode Breakdown
00:01 Welcoming Robert Parry to Buzzsaw.
01:03 The CIA led cocaine coup in Bolivia & South America.
05:42 Incredible interest in keeping dark money in government hands.
07:15 Drug trafficking with the Contras, and the truth of US government involvement.
12:14 Contras, Sandinistas, and how the US government staged a cocaine connection in Nicaragua.
16:09 Money laundering in Panama, and Manuel Noreaga the CIA Agent.
17:30 The Medellin cartel and CIA funneling money and weapons to the Contras.
20:39 International cocaine connections that lead to the White House; Investigations going cold.
24:51 The true story of cocaine and corruption, vs. the Netflix story of cops and robbers.
26:01 Finding more information and exposing more truth.
26:59 Thanks and goodbye.
Guest Bio
Robert Parry is an American investigative journalist who has written extensively about the Iran-Contra scandal. During the 1980s, he worked for Associated Press and Newsweek, and broke a number of Iran-Contra stories. Along with his AP partner Brian Barger, he was the first to report on Oliver North’s activities in the White House basement, and the first to describe the Nicaraguan Contras’ involvement with cocaine traffickers.
In 1995, he established ConsortiumNews.com as an online ezine dedicated to investigative journalism. Robert Parry has written several books, including Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & “Project Truth.” (1999) and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (2004).
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