LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM LAWRENCE L. SMITH

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: January 21, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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STEPHEN J. SOLARZ, Nov YORK
DON SONKER, WMUNNTON
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LAWRENCE J. SMITH. FLORIDA
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The Honorable William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Dear Mr. Casey:
January 21, 1986
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As Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Task Force
on International Narcotics Control, I would like to ask your
cooperation in providing a witness for a hearing I am proposing for
March 4 on Nicaraguan government involvement in narcotics trafficking.
The Task Force in previous years has held hearings on Cuban and
Bulgarian government involvement in drug trafficking; however, we have
not been able to examine Nicaraguan government involvement due to the
lack of credible witnesses. It is now my understanding that such an
individual is available, and I am therefore requesting your assistance
in facilitating his testimony before the Task Force.
The purpose of the hearing would be to examine the available
evidence on Nicaraguan government involvement in drug trafficking;
the source of the illicit drugs; the amount of funds generated; and
the ultimate use of these illicit gains. (Fo example, could these
funds have been used to finance the M-19 asslu.t last year on the
Palace of Justice in Bogota, Colombia?)
The hearing would take place on March
House Office Building, at 2:00 p.m.
you can provide in making available
date.
LJS:mcj
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preciate ny assistance
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