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...account of dealings between two of his assistants and a former CIA agent working in Central America that revealed more extensive communications about the contras than were previously known. Donald Gregg, the Vice President's national security adviser, kept in touch % for years with his Viet Nam comrade Felix Rodriguez, who uses the nom de guerre Max Gomez. After helping Rodriguez in 1985 get a post advising the Salvadoran air force, Gregg talked periodically with him. Last August, Rodriguez informed Gregg that the efforts of the private groups supplying munitions to the rebels were failing. In October, Bush's office...
Although Bush had met Rodriguez three times, he claimed to be unaware of any connection between the operative and the resupply efforts. Gregg told TIME that he had neglected to inform Bush of Rodriguez's discussion about the contras because "it was not something the Vice President or I was interested...
...aide, Donald P. Gregg, disclosed over the weekend that he arranged a meeting in August between Felix Rodriguez, a former associate of his at the CIA, and U.S. officials after Rodriguez expressed concern that supplies to the Contra rebels were moving too slowly...
...disclosure was the first time Bush's staff had been linked with Rodriguez in connection with the private supply flights, which came during a congressional ban on U.S. military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels...
Fitzwater said the arrangement between Gregg and Rodriguez had nothing to do with the diversion to the rebels of profits from secret U.S. sales of arms to Iran. Both Bush and President Reagan have said they knew nothing about the diversion until it was disclosed last month by Attorney General Edwin Meese...