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Asked who had financed the military supplies to the contras during the ban on such help from the U.S. Government, Calero replied, "There are things I just don't want to know. My father always said, 'Don't let people confide in you. They will confide in other people too, and you will be blamed.'" As the Iran-contra scandal unfolds, many in the Reagan Administration may eventually resort to the same know-nothing defense...
...Adolfo Calero, one of the three leaders of the United Nicaragua Opposition, said last week in Miami that his organization became so broke during the congressional cutoff that it is now $2 million in debt. Calero claimed that the contras rarely received any cash from the U.S. Government. The nonlethal aid arrived, he said, in the form of "goods and services," and the contras were asked to keep records on the deliveries...
...black network was a natural outgrowth of B.C.C.I.'s dubious and criminal associations. The bank was in a unique position to operate an intelligence- gathering unit because it dealt with such figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Peruvian President Alan Garcia, Daniel Ortega, contra leader Adolfo Calero and arms dealers like Adnan Khashoggi. Its original purpose was to pay bribes, intimidate authorities and quash investigations. But according to a former operative, sometime in the early 1980s the black network began running its own drugs, weapons and currency deals...
...specific meetings, memos, dates, names, Reagan's mind was pretty much a blank. General Vessey? "Oh dear, I could ask for help here. The name I know is very familiar." (It should be: he was Reagan's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.) Adolfo Calero? Reagan could not recall the most famous of the contra leaders even after he was shown a picture of the two of them together at a White House gathering. He had somehow missed the fact that McFarlane pleaded guilty in 1988 to withholding information from Congress. Shown the section of the Tower commission report...
...This week the Law School, responding to the disruptions of speeches--including the October 1987 attack on former Contra leader Adolfo Calero by a Tufts student--introduces free speech guidelines for all controversial speeches...