Word: elliotts
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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...
...said he did not question the legality of his instructions, which came from a small group that included North, then a member of the National Security Council staff, the head of the CIA's Central American task force and Elliott Abrams, who was awaiting Senate confirmation as assistant secretary of state for Central American affairs...
Some of the toughest grilling may be inflicted on Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, who had insisted publicly that "nobody in this building had any idea of any contributions coming from a foreign government" just days before it was disclosed he had solicited $10 million for the contras from the Sultan of Brunei. Worse yet, the money deposited into a Swiss account provided by North has disappeared. Says an Administration official: "Aside from the question of whether he did anything indictable, he will at the very least be sacrificed. Elliott knew most of the essential...
Meanwhile, the former ambassador to Costa Rica said Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams '69 and other senior officials ordered him to assist Nicaraguan rebels, according to a report published in yesterday's New York Times...