Word: nicaraguan
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...special tour last September was disclosed Monday night by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, who worked closely with North on Iranian arms sales and funding for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels...
...supposed Saudi prince, Ibrahim Bin Abdul Aziz Saud Masoud certainly had a name to befit a royal title. But what impressed Lieut. Colonel Oliver North even more was the prince's offer to donate a hefty sum of money to aid the Nicaraguan contras. North was so taken with the prince that he went to Ronald Reagan and National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty...
...Webster disclosed to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, offers yet another example of North's overreaching, amateurish operations. More significantly, it indicates that North told Reagan at least once of his efforts to raise money for the contras, despite the official ban on U.S. Government aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
...phony prince enticed Miller with visions of Saudi oil millions that could be diverted to the Nicaraguan freedom fighters. Of course, Miller had to provide a few assurances of his good faith: the Philadelphia Inquirer has reported that over a period of several months, Miller fronted about $250,000 of his own and a relative's money for the prince's exorbitant expenses. In return, the wide-eyed p.r. man was promised he would be made the "exclusive agent for Saudi oil in the U.S.," with commissions of 20% of sales flowing to him. One deal involving shipments...
...about the matter in July 1985. The NSC aide asked them to leave the situation alone for several days, the FBI later reported, "due to the critical timing of the prince's possible but remote large donation." The prince, North said, was in Europe "arranging transfer of funds to Nicaraguan freedom fighters." North told the agents that he had discussed the matter with Reagan and McFarlane a month earlier...