Word: coverted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kassar has many passports and identities. Most important, he was part of the covert network run by U.S. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. During the Iran- contra hearings, it was revealed that al-Kassar was given $1.5 million to purchase weapons. Questioned about al-Kassar, former U.S. National Security Adviser John Poindexter said, "When you're buying arms, you often have to deal with people you might not want to go to dinner with...
...HEAR TERRY REED TELL IT, during the mid-1980s he was a key player in a covert "resupply network" that flew arms to the Nicaraguan contras and drugs back to the U.S., using a small airport in rural Arkansas as a base. On top of that, the enterprise was personally supervised by Governor Bill Clinton, whose state received 10% of the profits from the operation. And according to Reed, he even discussed the scheme with Clinton while the Governor smoked marijuana in a van parked outside a busy Mexican restaurant in Little Rock...
...paper drill" by counting individual soldiers who were due for rotation. In addition, four days after taking office, Lyndon Johnson signed a new memo -- NSAM 273 -- that Newman shows was subtly but significantly different from the version Kennedy had been contemplating: among other things, it allowed U.S. involvement in covert actions against North Vietnam...
According to these officials, many libraryemployees and even some students knew about thesupposedly covert operation...
...cameras in between midnight and sixin the morning. It was a covert installation,"O'Keeffe said...