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Following congressional restrictions on contra funding, NSC Aide Oliver North reportedly devises a plan to use private U.S. citizens and other countries to funnel aid to the Nicaraguan rebel forces. President Reagan is said to approve the plan, although former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane last week denied the existence of such a plot...
...North such a wily renegade that he could in effect sting Khomeini and funnel millions to the contras without informing his superiors outside the NSC? "They knew what the guy was doing," says a North acquaintance. "How do you think a lieutenant colonel would pull off that kind of stuff?" Others are not so sure about that. "You think it's inconceivable that Ollie did all this on his own?" says a White House official with no great affection for the colonel. "Then you don't know Ollie North. He can fix you with those innocent blue eyes and tell...
...committee is now at the researching stage of its activities, Behrens said. In the future, he said, they are planning to work to funnel people into shelters, to try to gain food and money for the shelters and to become involved with other legislative aspects of the problem...
...directed the channeling of weapons and aid to Jonas Savimbi's UNITA rebels fighting the Marxist regime in Angola. Insiders say Cannistraro managed to supply Savimbi with more arms than the White House originally intended. A quiet official who joined the NSC in 1983, Cannistraro has helped funnel supplies to the mujahedin guerrillas at war with the Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan...
...start is chaotic, to say the least, 50 or60 boats trying to funnel through the narrowstarting line...