CIA to Probe Any Tie to Arkansas Airport

CIA Director John M. Deutch has ordered an internal review of any spy agency links to alleged U.S.-sanctioned criminal activity in Arkansas when President Clinton was governor, a CIA spokesman said. David Christian, an agency spokesman, said Deutch had ordered a probe of “a range of questions and allegations that have been raised concerning events in Mena, Ark., and into any possible connections with U.S. intelligence agencies.” The airport in Mena was the alleged center of a government-sanctioned cocaine trafficking and money laundering scheme that purportedly helped finance covert arms shipments to Nicaragua’s contras in the early 1980s.