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In the 1980s, Democrats on the Intelligence Committee were always complaining that the Reagan administration had failed to tell them it was mining Nicaragua's harbors, arming the Contras, and so on.
A decade ago, when the contras and Sandinistas were willing proxies for the final great showdown of the Cold War, a Daniel Ortega press conference could easily draw 100 foreign reporters--double that if he had a captured American spy or some other bauble to show off.
A staffer for McFarlane and Poindexter, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, developed a scheme to trade U.S. arms for hostages and divert the proceeds to the Contras to get around U.S. law.
If so, the paper should have explained how it squares with past U.S. support for Afghanistan forces against the Soviets and for contras against the Nicaraguan government, or for Israel against various Arab countries, etc.
3/28/86 From: Oliver North To: Fawn Hall Subject: Movie on the Contras