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WASHINGTON--The State Department persuaded a wealthy Asian potentate to contribute millions of dollars to U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels earlier this year, and a published report says the money was sent to a bank account administered by a central figure in the Iranian arms scandal...
Since the eruption of the furor over the Iranian arms sale and the Administration's revelation that proceeds were funneled to Nicaraguan rebels, State Department officials, including Shultz himself, have taken strides to distance themselves from the operation...
Adolfo Calero, head of the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest contra group, insists that his forces have received little if any of the funds and strongly denies any knowledge of Swiss bank accounts. A senior U.S. Administration official agrees. "There were no such large infusions of cash," he says. "The contras were constantly short of things. No question they were hurting...
...title at the NSC was innocuous: deputy director for political-military affairs. But North's derring-do style and can-do effectiveness put him at the center of a series of strategic covert actions: he helped plan the mining of Nicaraguan harbors by CIA agents; his office was the nerve center for the invasion of Grenada; he masterminded the hijacking of the plane carrying the Achille Lauro terrorists; and he has been the principal adviser behind a private network designed to fund and arm the contras. "His role was to go right up to the limit of the law," says...
...funding from third countries," such as Israel, but he appears to be simply wrong. The amendment was rewritten last year to include an explicit prohibition against U.S. solicitation of third-country financing, and that ban was in effect throughout the time Iranian money supposedly was being funneled to the Nicaraguan rebels...