Word: iran-contra
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...Named as Reagan's chief of staff in February 1987 when Don Regan was held responsible for the "chaos" in the White House after the Iran-contra revelations...
...world's pre-eminent makers of military aircraft, Dassault Aviation, the French company that produces the Mirage jet fighter. According to Arif Durrani, a B.C.C.I.-financed Pakistani arms dealer now doing time in a U.S. federal prison for illegally providing Hawk antiaircraft missile parts to Iran during the Iran-contra era, one of the biggest Mirage dealers in the world is a Pakistani multimillionaire named Asaf Ali. "Just as Ghaith Pharaon fronts for B.C.C.I. to purchase banks and businesses, Asaf is B.C.C.I.'s man in the weapons business," says Durrani, who financed many of his weapons deals through B.C.C.I. offices...
Sources close to the Iran-contra investigation, now in its sixth year, confirm that independent counsel LAWRENCE WALSH will announce indictments against a series of former CIA officers in September. Clair George, the former deputy director of operations, and Duane Clarridge, onetime head of the spy agency's Latin America division, among others, are likely to be charged with perjury and withholding information from Congress. In response to the investigation, several CIA veterans have established a fund to offset court costs for the accused. Walsh is said to be furious about that effort, and sees it as further evidence...
...computer software company based in Washington. Inslaw executives charge that Reagan Administration officials pirated their software, designed for law-enforcement purposes, then sold it. Casolaro believed the Inslaw affair was just part of a much deeper tangle of intrigues that he called "the Octopus." They included the Iran-contra arms deals and operations of the renegade bank B.C.C.I...
Especially troubling to the government is the defense strategy of dredging up Noriega's role in covert U.S. operations just as the Iran-contra scandal is re-emerging. Where the trail will lead no one knows. Noriega was an important player in the training and resupply of the Nicaraguan rebels. An earlier investigation into Noriega's gunrunning was discouraged by Washington, primarily because of former White House aide Oliver North's involvement; but rumors of drug running by CIA pilots to pay for contra guns have persisted. "The story has never been proved or disproved, but there is the nagging...