The World - News from July 20, 1989
Millionaire American fugitive Robert Vesco put the Cuban military into the cocaine smuggling business in 1985, NBC News reported. The network said that four high-ranking Cuban military officials who were executed last week after a summary trial received millions of dollars in drug bribes arranged by Vesco, who lives in Havana. Vesco, wanted for years in the United States on stock fraud and other charges, reportedly worked with the officers to set up an operation to smuggle U.S. computers and communications equipment into Cuba for the military.
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