North and A.P. (Oliver North, Associated Press) (Beat the Devil) (column)
Nation, The, December, 1986 by Cockburn, Alexander
North and A.P.
The Administration has long been concerned about a possible Contra-gate, and one of the stories now swirling around is that it tried a particularly ugly manipulation of the Associated Press.
On March 16, 1985, the A.P.'s Middle East bureau chief, Terry Anderson, was kidnapped in Lebanon. He remains captive to this day. Later that year two A.P. reporters based in Washington, Robert Parry and Brian Barger, began investigating shady dealings by the contras and the activities of Oliver North. They amassed damning detail from a multiplicity of sources, including Federal officials indignant at what they perceived to be the Reagan Administration's complicity in drug trafficking by the contras. Finally, in mid-January of this year, A.P....
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