Why Should Be Allowed The CIA To Support The Contras

Another reason the U.S allowed the CIA to support the Contras was because they were fighting a regime that was influenced by Communism. The Sandinistas were also supported by the USSR, and keep in mind that this Nicaraguan Revolution was going on during the same time as the Cold War, meaning that the U.S already feared the spread of Communism from Russia and from Vietnam. As the Domino Theory states, America was afraid that if one country fell into communism, the neighboring countries would eventually fall as well. Also, the U.S didn’t want a communist backed country so close to them, especially a country that they had been controlling the economics and politics of for years.
(End of evidence #3) Not only what they were doing there was illegal and wrong, but the they way they funded them wasn’t any better. In, 1981, the
This caused for the Boland Amendment to be passed, in 1982, in order to prohibit the U.S’s aid to the contras. This was what led to the start of the iran-contra affair.
While the Nicaraguans were continuing their revolutionary war, in 1984, terrorist group Hezbollah, in Iran, took 7 American hostage and the U.S claimed they would not cooperate with these terrorists and imposed a trade embargo. However, in 1986, 5 of the victims were released and Lebanese magazine, Ash-Shiraa, exposed a deal in which the U.S sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the hostages. Of course, the U.S kept denying this, but Iran’s government claimed it was true. That same year, Lieutenant Oliver North was caught destroying evidence that