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  • Title: John Dinges papers
    Date (inclusive): 1968-1998
    Collection Number: 2005C46
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 45 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder (18.3 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Writings, notes, correspondence, interview sound recordings and transcripts, trial transcripts, photocopies of government records, and printed matter, relating to General Manuel Noriega of Panama, his trial for drug trafficking, and American-Panamanian relations. Includes United States Department of State documents released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Used as research material for the book by John Dinges, Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms (New York, 1990).
    Creator: United States. Department of State
    Creator: Dinges, John, 1941-
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2005.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], John Dinges papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical/Historical Note

    American journalist and author.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    Writings, notes, correspondence, interview sound recordings and transcripts, trial transcripts, photocopies of government records, and printed matter, relating to General Manuel Noriega of Panama, his trial for drug trafficking, and American-Panamanian relations. Includes United States Department of State documents released in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Used as research material for the book by John Dinges, Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms (New York, 1990).

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    United States -- Foreign relations -- Panama
    Panama -- Foreign relations -- United States
    Drug traffic
    Noriega, Manuel Antonio, 1934-2017