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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...
...promise of greater openness regarding agency affairs and cooperation with Western intelligence agencies in such areas as drug trafficking and terrorism. But as the winds of glasnost blew more strongly, the top echelons of the organization grew nervous. The Old Guard complained that secret files were being opened and covert methods exposed. Kryuchkov reacted harshly when dissident KGB officers sounded off in the press about agency meddling in ethnic conflicts or floated proposals to deprive the KGB of its special troops...
Especially troubling to the government is the defense strategy of dredging up Noriega's role in covert U.S. operations just as the Iran-contra scandal is re-emerging. Where the trail will lead no one knows. Noriega was an important player in the training and resupply of the Nicaraguan rebels. An earlier investigation into Noriega's gunrunning was discouraged by Washington, primarily because of former White House aide Oliver North's involvement; but rumors of drug running by CIA pilots to pay for contra guns have persisted. "The story has never been proved or disproved, but there is the nagging...
...Cabinet posts. De Klerk also fell short of satisfying demands for an independent inquiry. The President did, however, invite prospective witnesses to alleged police misconduct against the A.N.C. to testify at a standing government board of inquiry. De Klerk announced that a panel of private citizens would now monitor covert funds, and said he had an "open mind" about a proposed interim government to rule impartially during negotiations on a postapartheid constitution. A.N.C. officials said the moves were insufficient but hinted at a willingness to put the Inkatha affair behind them...
Last week that sky seemed to be falling in on De Klerk, who returned from his latest two-day retreat to face a credibility crisis that is growing with bush-fire speed. Exposes in the Johannesburg Weekly Mail showed that the ( government, despite repeated denials and stonewalling, had provided covert funds via the South African police to underwrite Inkatha, a group battling the African National Congress for the support of the country's nearly 29 million blacks. By Pretoria's admission, Inkatha and an allied labor union received at least...