it was a crazy , stupid mistake , but it had n't been the first such on the shop 's part-according to an article andy had read in rolling stone , the shop had been involved and heavily influential in precipitating a bloodbath over an airplane hijacking by red army terrorists ( the hijack had been aborted-at the cost of sixty lives ) , in selling heroin to the organization in return for information on mostly harmless cuban-american groups in miami , and in the communist takeover of a caribbean island that had once been known for its multimillion-dollar beachfront hotels and its voodoo-practicing population .