W. WAS IN ALASKA in 1974, FOR THE CIA?

NY times article from 2000 on W working for Neil Bergt, Mr. Mark Air of shipping"stuff" for the Contras fame, in the 1970s, which is curiously never mentioned in his biographies.

Alaska in the 1970s: The Center of International Intrigue!

[I do think it was. Alaska in the 70's had it all: Big Oil, huge military presence, front line of the cold war, Moonies, air freight hub to Asia, the Mob bringing drugs and hookers in for the oil workers... We grew up in a Wide Open Town, gang.
- MoF ]

Also, the major air passenger hub between Asia and Europe, construction of the massive SOSUS sonar net for the Pacific, the staging area for the Glomar Explorer's attempt to raise a Russian sub that may have been attempting to launch a nuclear missile on Hawaii, atomic weapons tests, and the setting for at least one Jeffery Archer spy novel, which involves a chase past West High.