Word: contra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public relations firm that has "apparently been involved in the funneling of money to secret Swiss bank accounts" used in aiding the Contra rebels, according to Rep. Dante B. Fascell (D-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
...company, International Business Communications Inc., had non-competitive State Department contracts to publicize the Contra cause in the United States. During the same period, the company also was involved in funneling privately raised money to the Contras...
This interest flowed from two parallel developments between January and April 1985. First, U.S. government aid to the Contras had run out and "elements of the NSC staff focused their efforts on strategies for repackaging the Contra program to increase support on Capitol Hill," according to the Tower Commission...
...firm also was retained by Washington fund-raiser Carl "Spitz" Channell to help conduct a pro-Contra public relations campaign and funnel privately raised money to the Contras. Channell associates have said that as much as $3 million in private aid was given to IBC for humanitarian aid to the Contras...
...host meetings for planning a pro-Contra ad campaign and to act as an information library for those making the ads, according to a spokesman for the Robert Goodman ad agency, which produced the television spots...