Mysterious American Man in the meeting with the drug lords

I think it was a chain that began with the fall of Cuba actually... Bay of Pigs fiasco, the JFK assassination, the suspicious Warren Commission meetings etc that really shook American faith in their government like nothing since before WW2. Johnson, Nixon, the impeachment, Ford and the Pardons, etc. just exacerbated it. We didn't have an alternative media back then to report on deeper corruption too much outside of the occasional scandal, but I think a lot of Americans suspected widespread government corruption only articulated by people considered at the time to be on the fringe like Lyndon Larouche.

The presence of the crooked Washington Bureaucrat with a bunch of drug lords and corrupt Bolivian politicians I think must have been most inspired by the whole "Air America" Laos/Cambodia opium running that the U.S. government was shadily involved with in 1969-1973 (though I don't think it turned into any major scandal, even though plenty of people knew about it).

strangely enough I actually met Zeismer once when he came to my UNLV class to give a guest lecture. He said that John Huston was totally hungover or drunk during the making of ANNIE and the crew had to make the film around him while he was passed out most of the time. I added it to IMDB trivia but they removed it at some point. :(. He also told us about Marlon Brando playing hide 'n seek for half a day during the filming of APOCALYPSE NOW and how his antics meant his role had to get chopped down more and more as they only had him for a few days. He even signed my book "Terminate with Extreme Prejudice" and said that was going to be the title of the movie at some point. Rest in peace, a really nice and humble guy with many stories he was eager to tell. I wish he had cameo'd in more movies as he was actually a pretty decent actor. He said he got into AD'ing because he recognized early on that he wanted to work in film but was "not a creative person".

I respectfully disagree. Some low level detective wouldn't be at a meeting with a Bolivian drug kingpin and several heads of state. It would be hilarious though if he was, and by "from Washington", Sosa meant that he was just some corrupt cop from Spokane.