Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier yesterday, a Reagan administration lawyer was questioned closely by the committees about his 1985 legal opinion that has been used by some in the administration to justify secret aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
When he testified on Capitol Hill as the first witness in the Iran-contra hearings, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord portrayed himself as a patriotic private citizen recruited by the White House to help support the Nicaraguan contras after Congress had cut off U.S. Government assistance. Although Secord told his story without insisting on immunity from prosecution, last week he assailed the hearings in a Wall Street Journal column, calling the proceedings an "obscene spewing of information and misinformation" and an example of the nation's "periodic, spasmodic flirtation with self- destruction...
Tambs worked through a CIA agent (called Tomas Castillo but identified as Joe Fernandez) in his embassy to get Costa Rica to approve construction of a secret airstrip near the Nicaraguan border and persuade contras to move deeply into Nicaragua. The Ambassador insisted that Abrams "knew just as much as I did" about the southern-front activities. Abrams has denied to congressional committees that he knew of any such details. Fernandez, who was placed on administrative leave by the CIA late last year because of his contra involvement, told the committee in closed testimony that his superiors, including Fiers, knew...
When Ronald Reagan admitted two weeks ago that he had discussed contributions to the Nicaraguan contras with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, news reports suggested that the President had knowingly contravened the Boland amendment. Or so it seemed to White House Aide Thomas Griscom, who marched into the office of Chief of Staff Howard Baker. Said Griscom: "At some point you've gotta say whoa...
Tambs also testified that he negotiated with Costa Rican officials for construction of the Santa Elena airstrip in the northern part of the country for use by North's private airlift supporting the Nicaraguan rebels...