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...weapons was spent to assist the contras. Another $1 million was spent on other covert activities that Secord would not fully describe, and $2 million is still unaccounted for. Nearly $8 million is sitting in frozen Swiss bank accounts controlled by Secord's business partner, the Iranian-born Albert Hakim. What will eventually happen to this money is uncertain...
These and other portions of Secord's tale remain to be confirmed, challenged or expanded by subsequent witnesses, prominently including former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, who will testify this week; Hakim, who has the most detailed records of the maze of Swiss bank accounts through which Iranian and contra arms money flowed; and eventually North. But only one or two of these witnesses will be in a position to give testimony as detailed and sweeping as Secord...
Secord said on ABC-TV's "Nightline" news program that he and Iranian-born business partner Albert Hakim arranged to bring the Iranians to Washington to convince them they were dealing with real U.S. officials...
...used in both the Iran arms deals and the contra-supply operations, Secord is expected to help untangle one of the scandal's chief remaining mysteries: Where did the money go? An arms dealer ever since he left the Pentagon in 1983, Secord joined a company run by Albert Hakim, an Iranian American who recently gave committee investigators thick notebooks containing details of the firm's various bank accounts. Proceeds from the Iranian arms sales as well as covert money for contra military supplies are believed to have moved through these accounts...
...Singlaub, who solicited money openly for the contras on a worldwide basis; Barbara Studley, a rather mysterious friend of Singlaub's; Ellen Garwood, the Texas multimillionaire who donated lavishly to Channell's groups; and Jane McLaughlin, a former Channell aide who has spoken freely about his White House ties. Hakim, expected to return from living abroad, will flesh out the details of secret money transfers through Switzerland and the Cayman Islands...