Secret Heartbeat of America: The C.I.A. & Drugs (1999)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 48M
Director : Daniel Hopsicker
Synopsis
In 1987 in Arkansas two high school seniors were brutally murdered, their bodies strewn across train tracks to be dismembered by a speeding train. Upon further investigation, the evidence of this crime leads to the heart of a massive C.I.A. drug and weapons smuggling operation based in Mena, Arkansas, and raises questions about past C.I.A. involvement in drug and weapons trafficking worldwide.
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