Word: coverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose proclaimed mastery of spin control failed miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these officials floundered, Oliver North, with the approval of his boss on the National Security Council staff, John Poindexter, showed a reckless disdain for the laws of the land by creating a covert network to fund the contras in Nicaragua while trading arms to the Iranians...
...some half a dozen foreign governments and an assortment of private citizens. Despite the CIA's objections, he gave intelligence information to the Iranians. He claimed that he had threatened the President of Costa Rica with the cutoff of U.S. aid if the President disclosed the existence of a covert airstrip. At one point, he even proposed sinking or hijacking a freighter en route to Nicaragua and stealing the weapons on board for the contras...
...three members of the Tower Commission correctly realized that covert operations are not new to the this administration. Almost every modern president has initiated some secret action using an organization not responsible to Congress...
...Tower of Texas, was appointed by Reagan to look into the operations of the National Security Council. But to the consternation of the White House, the commission has broadened the scope of its inquiry to probe a wide variety of questions stemming from the arms deals with Iran and covert efforts to support the Nicaraguan contras. Among the disclosures that preceded the report's release...
...nomination to succeed the ailing Casey as CIA director. Gates repeatedly insisted that he had known little about the sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of profits to the contras, and he promised to argue within the Administration for prompt disclosure to Congress of any future covert operations...