Word: costa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that from mid-1985 on he "forswore" any profit. Liman pressed Secord about closed-door testimony taken previously from Robert Dutton, an associate in the contra supply network. Dutton had said Secord considered selling the network's assets, which eventually included five aircraft and facilities in El Salvador and Costa Rica, to the CIA for $4 million. Wrong, said Secord: he intended, once Congress permitted a resumption of open Government military aid to the contras, as it did last October, to donate the assets to the CIA free...
...official ties may be tightened as Lewis Tambs, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, is asked about working with North to get Costa Rica to keep a secret contra airstrip operating. The CIA station chief in Costa Rica, recently identified as Joseph Fernandez, will be quizzed about the contras and which of his CIA superiors was aware of his activities...
Meanwhile, the former ambassador to Costa Rica said Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams '69 and other senior officials ordered him to assist Nicaraguan rebels, according to a report published in yesterday's New York Times...
Lewis A. Tambs resigned as U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica in January amid reports that he and his staff had improperly assisted the contras...
Tambs said he was told to give logistical helpto contras and Americans flying weapons to therebels and to help with the opening of a newcontra offensive on Nicaragua's southern borderwith Costa Rica, the newspaper said...