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...Army supplied to the CIA cannons and helicopters that the intelligence agency used to attack the Sandinistas in Nicaragua -- before the Boland amendment forbade CIA involvement in "military or paramilitary operations" there...
...much discussed Boland amendment, which prohibited military aid to the contras, does not carry criminal penalties, but a conspiracy to violate it could be considered criminal...
...violate the Boland amendment proscription against "direct or indirect" military support for the contras; some private fund raising skirted U.S. tax laws...
...former NSC adviser says he had ordered his staff not to solicit funds. "I never heard those instructions," North testified, adding that McFarlane was the one who asked him to keep the contras going after the Boland cutoff...
Supporting the Nicaraguan rebels with profits from U.S. arms sales to Iran may have been a misappropriation of federal funds and a violation of the Boland amendment, as well as conspiracy to defraud the Government...