Word: diversionism
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According to North, Casey also thought up the "fall guy plan," in which the ever loyal Marine would take the "hit" if any of the many secret operations were exposed, thus protecting higher officials -- especially the President. When the Iran-contra scam did unravel, the trail led quickly to North...
North's shredding of documents was so brazen that one new revelation of this activity prompted even the committees' toughest interrogator, Senate Chief Counsel Arthur Liman, to sit back amid laughter and say, "I want to hear more about it. Go ahead." North claimed that even as three aides from...
North says he wrote at least five memos detailing the contra-support operation, including the diversion. He could not say whether the President approved any of the memos and testified that Reagan subsequently told him that he "didn't know."
The Attorney General asserts that he first learned about the transfer of profits from the Iran arms sales to the contras in November 1986, after a memo mentioning the diversion was discovered in North's office.
Casey knew about the diversion in advance, said North, and strongly endorsed it, calling it "the ultimate irony, the ultimate covert operation." Last December, Casey told TIME, "I don't know anything about diversion of funds."