Esta é uma referência ao Caso Contra-Irã , onde a CIA foi acusada de facilitar a tráfico de drogas ilegais para financiar os rebeldes contra (comunistas) na Nicarágua.
Para hammer.the.point.home depois ficamos sabendo que o Coronel encarregado da operação é de fato um coronel norte. Nós também somos tratados com uma diatribe dele sobre os perigos do comunismo e a ascensão do liberalismo:
“Relax a bit. Drink your coffee.” The colonel paces back behind his desk, sits down. Roger sips cautiously at the brown sludge in the mug with the Marine Corps crest. “The president told me to organize a team,” says the colonel, so casually that Roger nearly chokes on his coffee, “to handle contingencies. October surprises. Those asshole commies down in Nicaragua. ‘We’re eyeball to eyeball with an Evil Empire, Ozzie, and we can’t afford to blink’ — those were his exact words. The Evil Empire uses dirty tricks. But nowadays we’re better than they are: buncha hicks, like some third-world dictatorship — Upper Volta with shoggoths. My job is to pin them down and cut them up. Don’t give them a chance to whack the shoe on the UN table, demand concessions. If they want to bluff I’ll call ‘em on it. If they want to go toe-to-toe I’ll dance with ‘em.” He’s up and pacing again. “The company used to do that, and do it okay, back in the fifties and sixties. But too many bleeding hearts — it makes me sick. If you guys went back to wet ops today you’d have journalists following you every time you went to the john in case it was newsworthy.