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When these talks were pursued, Shultz insisted on written negotiating instructions that ruled out any arms sales. Yet the State Department's representative at the talks in Frankfurt learned that the Iranians were working from a nine-point plan given to them by Albert Hakim, an American businessman used by Poindexter and North to handle the finances in the arms sales. The points included yet further weapons deals. More shocking, they included U.S. involvement in a scheme to win the release of 17 Al Dawa Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for blowing up a U.S. embassy building there...
...offense: the craggy-faced Arthur Liman, 54, a New York City trial lawyer whose sharp questions had already lacerated such witnesses as Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. A partner at the prestigious firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Liman (estimated annual salary: $1.1 million) is a specialist in white-collar crime. Last January he joined the Iran-contra investigation for what he calls the greatest challenge of his career. For the defense: Brendan Sullivan, 45, a partner at Washington's best-known criminal- law firm, Williams & Connolly. Despite his mild appearance, Sullivan is a tireless worker and tenacious courtroom...
North also linked the perils of the Tehran trip to an offer by Secord's partner Albert Hakim to "do something for my family" if he failed to return from Iran. North said he knew that Hakim was wealthy, and he was grateful for his assistance as a translator in the Iran negotiations. That is why, when Willard Zucker, one of Hakim's lawyers, asked Mrs. North to visit him in Philadelphia, the colonel advised her to do so. Hakim had testified that North would be the beneficiary of a $2 million will if both Secord and Hakim were...
...recall." In his final morning in the week's testimony, the selective memory of the obviously bright officer failed on no fewer than 30 occasions. Earlier, North could not even recall why at one point $41 million had been deposited in the Swiss accounts controlled by Secord and Hakim...
...Pentagon officials, having been through the wars together in Southeast Asia, formed a kind of old-boys network. Theodore Shackley, who knew Secord in Laos and had been the CIA's station chief in Saigon, worked from 1981 to 1983 as a consultant for Secord's business partner Albert Hakim. Shackley had been a candidate to become head of covert operations before his career was sidetracked by Turner. Another former Shackley associate at the CIA, Thomas Clines, helped Secord establish logistics for North's operation to supply the Nicaraguan contras...