Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The State Department persuaded a wealthy Asian potentate to contribute millions of dollars to U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels earlier this year, and a published report says the money was sent to a bank account administered by a central figure in the Iranian arms scandal...
...idea to ask Bolkiah for money came from Elliot Abrams '69, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, who provided the number of a Swiss bank account where the funds were to be sent, The Times said...
...newspaper quoted sources as saying the account was administered by Lt. Col. Oliver L. North Jr., the fired National Security Council staff member under investigation by the Justice Department...
...great guy," he told me, "Why, he'd give you the shirt off your back. Of course, first you'd have to pay for the shirt in gold bullion, to be deposited in a secret Swiss bank account, but the principle's the same. And he's a guy who knows how to take initiative. I had him over to my house once for dinner--I went to the kitchen to open some beer and by the time I got back he had subletted half the place to foreign agents. You have to admire that kind of spunk...
...presidency, has defended his decision to sell arms to Iran as part of a secret diplomatic initiative to re-establish ties with the strategically-placed Persian Gulf nation. But he says he was unaware that money in connection with the sales was being funneled through a Swiss bank account to Contra rebels battling the Nicaraguan government...