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Like the Furies of Greek legend, Iran-contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh has been slow but relentless in pursuit of justice. Last week fate caught up with a major figure in the scandal: Clair George, who ran the CIA's covert-action directorate from 1984 to '87. Walsh announced that a federal grand jury had charged George with 10 counts of lying or obstruction during a series of investigations into the Iran-contra affair. George allegedly concealed what the CIA knew about illegal aid to the Nicaraguan contras and the role of U.S. agents. The indictment increases the political heat...
Sources close to the Iran-contra investigation, now in its sixth year, confirm that independent counsel LAWRENCE WALSH will announce indictments against a series of former CIA officers in September. Clair George, the former deputy director of operations, and Duane Clarridge, onetime head of the spy agency's Latin America division, among others, are likely to be charged with perjury and withholding information from Congress. In response to the investigation, several CIA veterans have established a fund to offset court costs for the accused. Walsh is said to be furious about that effort, and sees it as further evidence...
...Fiers, former head of the CIA's Central American Task Force, who has admitted misleading Congress about when the agency first learned of the diversions. Fiers now says he became aware of the fund transfers during the summer of 1986 and warned the agency's deputy director of operations, Clair E. George, about them. But he charges that George ordered him to deny any knowledge of the U.S. role in supplying weapons to the contras when he testified before the House intelligence committee in October...
...Central America task force from 1984 to 1986, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of lying to Congress about when high- ranking intelligence officials first learned of the illegal diversion of funds to the contras. Fiers said he became aware of the diversions and informed Clair George, then the CIA's deputy director for operations, in the summer of 1986. But, Fiers said, George ordered him to deny any knowledge of the transfers when he testified before the House intelligence committee that October. In exchange for being allowed to plead guilty to two misdemeanors instead of more serious felonies...
...sake? Why does our way of life have to be so driven by sexual obsession? I think all these issues are important to a larger understanding of the problems addressed by Ms. Viggiani's article. Please continue to make The Crimson a forum for these issues. Richard St. Clair '68, A.M. '73, Ph.D...