The Cocaine Connection (Original title)
Date: 14 September 1995 (Television)Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis: In 1987 two teenagers from Mena in Arkansas were found by the coroner to have died from a marijuana overdose. The programme examines the suggestion that they were murdered after stumbling into a drugs ambush; evidence linking President Clinton to a network of gunrunning and drug smuggling; the use of the local airport for CIA smuggling of arms to the Contras of Nicaragua; the import of cocaine; Clinton's visits, while governor of Arkansas, to the airport. [Programme broken off before the end] Contributors include Judge Kenneth Star; L.D.Brown, Clinton's bodyguard; John Brown, a former county police investigator; Mena airport pilots and staff; police and an internal revenue agent.
Subjects: Cocaine, Smuggling, Clinton, Bill (1946- ), Arms sales, Contras, United States of America
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TV Transmissions
Date: 14 September 1995Broadcast channel: ITVCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 19:30-20:00Runtime: 24 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 14 September 1995 (Television)Country: United Kingdom
Synopsis: In 1987 two teenagers from Mena in Arkansas were found by the coroner to have died from a marijuana overdose. The programme examines the suggestion that they were murdered after stumbling into a drugs ambush; evidence linking President Clinton to a network of gunrunning and drug smuggling; the use of the local airport for CIA smuggling of arms to the Contras of Nicaragua; the import of cocaine; Clinton's visits, while governor of Arkansas, to the airport. [Programme broken off before the end] Contributors include Judge Kenneth Star; L.D.Brown, Clinton's bodyguard; John Brown, a former county police investigator; Mena airport pilots and staff; police and an internal revenue agent.
Subjects: Cocaine, Smuggling, Clinton, Bill (1946- ), Arms sales, Contras, United States of America
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 14 September 1995Broadcast channel: ITVCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 19:30-20:00Runtime: 24 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Credits
(7)
Production Company: Twenty Twenty Television, Commissioning Company: Carlton UK Productions, Producer: James Birstall, Producer: Howard Bradburn, Producer: Jonathan Challis, Producer: Jill Robinson, Editor: Simon Berthon
Cast
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Dermot Murnaghan ()