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...covert-action directorate from 1984 to '87. Walsh announced that a federal grand jury had charged George with 10 counts of lying or obstruction during a series of investigations into the Iran-contra affair. George allegedly concealed what the CIA knew about illegal aid to the Nicaraguan contras and the role of U.S. agents. The indictment increases the political heat on Robert Gates, George's former boss, whose nomination as the next CIA director is awaiting confirmation. Nothing in last week's action implicated Gates, but the scandal seems to be moving closer to him. "This indictment merely makes...
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...
...Defense Intelligence Agency for information that ranged from "incidental" to the Panamanian government's stance in the canal negotiations in 1976. The defense, however, claims that the general also had control of an $11 million slush fund from which, on Washington's behalf, he allegedly supplied the Nicaraguan contras and spied on Castro. Prosecutors are braced for any such bad-news revelations and expect the CIA, DEA and DIA to have some dirty laundry aired...
...illegal diversion of profits from Iranian arms sales to the Nicaraguan contras an unauthorized plot hatched by a small band of zealots in Ronald Reagan's National Security Council? Or did high-ranking members of the U.S. intelligence community not only learn about the scheme and do nothing to stop it, but unlawfully help to conceal it from Congress...
...intelligence officials had engaged in covering up the Reagan Administration's attempts to evade a congressional ban on aid to the Nicaraguan rebels by siphoning off profits from secret arms shipments to Iran...