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...Congressmen also found it hard to believe what they heard from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, the point man for the Administration's policy in Central America. The cocky, abrasive Abrams confessed to deliberately misleading congressional committees last fall when he claimed that the Administration had not solicited funds from foreign countries for the Nicaraguan contras. In fact, Abrams himself had requested a contribution of $10 million from the government of Brunei, but he testified last week that he was not "authorized" to tell Congress the truth on the matter. Abrams also told the panel...
...Abrams' colleagues at the State Department believe his days are numbered. Abrams will prove to be a liability next fall when the Administration asks Congress for $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Said one State Department official: "Contra funding is in deep trouble as long as Elliott is here...
...SELLER: Elliott Mishara...
Another witness who can expect an uncomfortable turn in the spotlight this week is Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, whose role in directing American assistance to the contras was spelled out by Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica from July 1985 to January 1987. Tambs repeated what he had previously told the Tower commission: North had asked him to open a southern front against Nicaragua's Sandinistas. The orders came from a three- man "restricted interagency group," chaired by Abrams, that included North and Alan Fiers, chief of the CIA's Central American task force...
...salaries of Government officials who helped the contras? During the debate over his amendment in 1984, Boland emphasized the point: "It clearly prohibits any expenditure, including those from accounts for salaries." If he is right, the disclosures that various Government employees -- most notably North and Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams -- spent time coordinating support for the contras would pretty clearly point to a violation...