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...Egyptian arms-shipping contract. He was suspended from duty for a short time, although he was never indicted; he was reinstated with the approval of then Deputy Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, now the National Security Adviser. He left the Air Force the following year to become president of Hakim's Stanford Technology Corp...
...force in Thailand to supervise flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic equipment to the Shah's secret police...
Friends say Secord has been itching to tell his story, but did not decide to do so until he was allowed by the congressional committee to inspect secret bank records, controlled by Hakim, which convinced him that he had no legal culpability. House Chairman Lee Hamilton is certain that Secord's testimony will go right to the heart of Iranscam. "Secord is a comprehensive witness," says Hamilton. "There aren't many of them in this drama. Most of the witnesses who will follow him will fill in the gaps...
Lately, Perot and his investigators have been interviewing people who have also been questioned by the Christic Institute, a Washington public-interest law firm. Christic last year filed a suit in Miami against Clines, Shackley, Secord, Singlaub, Hakim and 24 others; Armitage is mentioned several times but is not a defendant. The suit charges that some of the defendants became involved in drug smuggling from Southeast Asia in the early 1960s and later in a series of shady weapons deals around the world, using the profits to finance covert anti-Communist activities...
...Records that we obtained confirmed that some money was diverted," said one source. It was not clear whether Hakim, in addition to providing Swiss bank records, also handed over records from Caribbean bank acounts where money reportedly was placed for use by the Contras...