Word: nicaraguans
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From the early 1980s on, the Justice Department received hundreds of tips and complaints about the criminal dealings of this multinational bank, but apparently took no action because it knew B.C.C.I. had strong links to CIA covert operations and to the illicit transfer of funds for the Nicaraguan contras and arms purchases for Iran. The Justice Department investigation of the criminal banking empire was so dilatory that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's own probe went far beyond the federal effort...
Since last summer, more and more evidence has surfaced indicating that Bush was not, as he claimed, "out of the loop" when the decisions were made to sell arms to Iran in exchange for hostages, and then to divert profits from those sales to aid the Nicaraguan rebel contras...
...Boland Amendment expressly prohibited government aid to the contras--by covertly funding the Nicaraguan "freedom fighters," Reagan's underlings (if not Reagan himself) acted illegally. This is more than a disagreement about policy; it is a violation...
...Supreme Court refused to review a lower-court ruling that overturned the 1990 conviction of former National Security Adviser John Poindexter. He and Oliver North, whose conviction was also reversed, were the main architects of the secret sales of weapons to Iran and diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan contras. Ironically, that leaves former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who angrily opposed the deal, as the biggest-name defendant remaining. A federal judge Friday threw out a charge against him of lying to Congress, but he still faces a January trial on four counts of perjury and making false statements...
...chose to wrestle with the narrow issue of George's "technical" responsibility to Congress. But Gillen used expert testimony and thousands of newly declassified documents to prove his point: that key officials of the CIA had blindly served the White House in circumventing Congress by providing aid to the Nicaraguan contras in defiance of the Boland amendment. Concedes a CIA veteran: "In the crunch, as an institution, it failed the people...