The truth about the remaining dark secret of the Iran-Contra scandal- the
United States government's collaboration with drug smugglers.
Congressional committees have established a link between American agencies
and known drug traffickers. In Powderburns for the first time, a DEA agent
goes public with detailed information about U.S. links to drug trafficking
in Central America.
Powderburns is the story of Celerino Castillo III who spent 12 years in
the
Drug Enforcement Administration. During that time, he built cases against
organized drug rings in Manhattan, raided jungle cocaine labs in the
Amazon, conducted aerial eradication operations in Guatemala, and
assembled
and trained anti-narcotics units in several countries.
The eerie climax of Agent Castillo's career with the DEA took place in El
Salvador. One day, he recieved a cable from a fellow agent. He was told to
investigate possible drug smuggling by Nicaraguan Contras operating from
the ilpango air force base.
Castillo quickly discovered that Contra pilots were, indeed, smuggling
narcotics back into the United States - using the same pilots, planes, and
hangars that the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security
Council, under the Direction of Lt. Col. Oliver North, used to maintain
their covert supply operation to the Con
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