Hooooo boy... Keith Allen Dennis drops by once more to help Fritz tell a darkly fantastical tale about a little weird looking dude who specialized in leaping out of planes to spread democracy via death squad, Major General John K. Singlaub, co-founder of the private intelligence clearinghouse and Contra fundraiser, Western Goals. From Operation Phoenix to Iran-Contra to the "renaissance" of the World Anti-Communist League, Singlaub wove weird webs of drugs, guns, and guerillas in his never-ending war against the Red Menace!

Singlaub (center) with Contras in Honduras, 1985. From Inside the League.

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Reading:
Anderson, Scott and Jon Lee Anderson. Inside the League: The Shocking Exposé of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League. Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., 1986.
Cockburn, Leslie. Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua. Bloomsbury, 1987.
Parry, Robert. Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth'. TMC, 1999.
Gelbspan, Ross. Break-Ins, Death Threats, and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Peace Movement. South End Press, 1991.
Seagraves, Sterling and Peggy. Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold. Verso, 2002.
Singlaub, John K.. Hazardous Duty: An American Soldier in the Twentieth Century. Summit Books, 1991.

Songs:

Rodríguez, Silvio. "Canción Urgente por Nicaragua," date not broadly documented, likely 1980s.
Minutemen. "Big Stick," from album Double Nickels on the Dime, 1984.
Other music from pixabay.com and fesliyanstudios.com.

Link to the Frontline documentary on the Moonies that Keith mentions.
Also check out "WACL VII: Eighties Part I w/John Brisson, Keith Allen Dennis, Moss Robeson, Don Diligent, & Recluse". Podcast. The Farm Mach II. 2022. Link here.