Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosive this investigation could be was revealed last week, when Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh secured the scandal's first guilty plea, one that led uncomfortably close to the Oval Office. Conservative Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell admitted he had conspired to defraud the Government by using a tax-exempt "charitable" foundation to send military supplies to the contras. He named former National Security Council Aide Lieut. Colonel Oliver North as his "co-conspirator." North had not only helped persuade donors to give to Channell but had also successfully urged Ronald Reagan to thank many...
...entire affair will not be heard until at least mid-June. Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who was kept informed by North about almost everything he did, poses the most direct peril to the President. Cool and at least outwardly serene at the center of the scandal, the pipe-puffing admiral has told friends he intends to lay his story out candidly and will not be shaken by others. He has privately said he feels that he kept the President informed of the Iran and contra-funding operations, including telling him in general terms on at least two occasions...
...addition to describing the network of private operatives North used in both the Iran arms deals and the contra-supply operations, Secord is expected to help untangle one of the scandal's chief remaining mysteries: Where did the money go? An arms dealer ever since he left the Pentagon in 1983, Secord joined a company run by Albert Hakim, an Iranian American who recently gave committee investigators thick notebooks containing details of the firm's various bank accounts. Proceeds from the Iranian arms sales as well as covert money for contra military supplies are believed to have moved through these...
After starting Phase 1 with a potential bomb thrower, Secord, the committee expects to end it with the scandal's bombshell: North's secretary, Fawn Hall. Charges of a possible obstruction of justice could hinge in part on how she describes the documents she shredded, altered or spirited off to North after Attorney General Edwin Meese carelessly interviewed him about the Iran-contra diversion but failed to call in the FBI or lock up North's files...
Over the next three or so months, the congressional committee investigating the Iran-contra affair will hear from 35 to 50 witnesses as it struggles to unravel the worst foreign policy scandal of the decade. Major congressional hearings are never predictable; during Watergate a minor witness revealed the White House taping system. As the hearings open, these are the key witnesses...