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...sense, he was. The CIA's fingerprints have been found all over Iranscam. U.S. arms reached Iran in CIA-chartered cargo planes. Part of the payments for the weapons went into a CIA account in Switzerland. The CIA first directed the covert arming of the contras in Nicaragua; when this was outlawed by Congress in June 1984, the agency monitored the secret resupply of munitions to Ronald Reagan's favorite "freedom fighters...
...more information emerges on both the Iranian adventure and the contra military resupply, the names of former CIA agents and assets keep appearing. Eugene Hasenfus, the American captured by the Sandinistas after his C-123K cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua on Oct. 5, had performed similar work as a CIA "cargo kicker" over Laos during the Viet Nam War. A more significant connection is George Cave, who was a young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served...
...Everett Briggs and urgently appealed for U.S. logistical support. President Reagan responded promptly, authorizing an airlift. Last week U.S. troops flying twin- rotor Chinooks and Huey helicopters ferried hundreds of Honduran soldiers to within 20 miles of the Nicaraguan border. At the same time, Honduran pilots strafed targets inside Nicaragua...
...still too early to know whether the contras will drown in the tidal wave of revelations currently washing over the White House. Certainly it is unwise to write off an army that has repeatedly shown staying power, if not fighting prowess. Indeed, in Nicaragua, there is talk that Honduras' recent attacks were a diversionary tactic to allow the contras to infiltrate Nicaragua in time for a spectacular holiday attack. In Honduras, however, the word is that the contras' fireworks will not begin until the end of January. Whenever the contras finally do resume their war, the pyrotechnics will have...
Hasenfus was the only survivor when the Sandinistas shot down his plane over southern Nicaragua. He said he was working as a cargo handler on the flight. Two other Americans and a Nicaraguan died in the crash...