Word: funds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming 84% of those polled believe North's testimony that all his actions were approved by higher-ups in Government. Even more damaging to Ronald Reagan, 58% agree that the "President knew money was being diverted from the Iranian arms sales to fund the contras," and only 23% disagree...
Many people sought to help the charismatic colonel. Donations to the Oliver North Legal Assistance Fund in Washington picked up considerably; it is expected to go well above the nearly $100,000 already collected. In Jacksonville, N.C., home of Marine Camp Lejeune, where North once trained, retired Army Colonel E.M. Edens, 72, called the local paper with an offer of $100 to start a fund to pay for North's security system. In Washington, the epicenter of the Ollie phenomenon, the offices of Congressmen on the committee were besieged with letters and telegrams running 20 to 1 in favor...
...startling revelation, North said Casey had intended to expand this fund with the arms sales profits and use it as an "off-the-shelf, self- sustaining, stand-alone" fund for operations that the director felt the CIA could not or should not carry out. This would get around two bothersome legal requirements: having to seek presidential approval and then reporting the supersecret presidential "finding" to Congress. Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, who presided over the hearings, called this an attempt to create a "secret government within our Government...
...which pushed the Marine officer into the difficult spot of trying to avoid portraying his bosses as either a willful part of a cover-up or too meek to defend their policy convictions. North had his most arduous time trying to justify the creation of Casey's covert "slush fund" that not even the President need be told about. (Some of the proposed uses were for U.S.-Israeli operations that North explained in a closed session...
...violate the Boland amendment proscription against "direct or indirect" military support for the contras; some private fund raising skirted U.S. tax laws...