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Southern Air Transport, once owned by the CIA and linked to arms shipments to Iran and the contras fighting the Nicaraguan government, filed a $20-million libel suit in Washington against Newsweek magazine over two photographs and an article that appeared in the magazine’s Jan. 26 issue. The suit alleges that the article, “Is There a Contra Drug Connection?”, and accompanying photographs linked Southern Air Transport to reported contra operations that smuggled cocaine into the United States for arms.
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