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...uphill struggle to win congressional approval to buy five AWACS radar planes (ironically, for protection against any military threat from Iran), four U.S. officials worked hard to turn the tide. They were North, then a little-known aide at the NSC; Charles P. Tyson, another NSC staffer; Richard Secord, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; and Robert Lilac, a Pentagon official who moved to the NSC, where he became North's boss. The four worked closely with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan to close the deal, which was bitterly opposed by Israel...
Lilac quit the NSC at the end of 1983 to work as a consultant for Prince Bandar, who is the Saudi Ambassador to Washington. Tyson left in March 1983 to work for Khashoggi. The tortuous trail left by both North and Secord, now a retired Air Force general, touches virtually every mysterious point of action in the entire Iran-contra affair...
...When Secord left Government service in 1983, he became president of Stanford Technology Trading Group International, based in Vienna, Va. He formed that company together with Albert Hakim, an Iranian-born arms dealer who runs a California electronics firm started up in the 1970s to sell sensitive U.S. technology overseas. Stanford Technology has had intriguing connections in Switzerland. There was a Stanford Technology Corp. in Geneva and a Stanford Technology Services in Freiburg. The Geneva firm had the same address as the Compagnie de Services Fiduciaires (C.S.F.), which the Times of London identified as the repository for $18 million...
...Carlucci's controversial actions at the Pentagon involved Richard Secord, who was then a deputy assistant secretary for the Middle East and has since become a central figure in the network of private arms dealers supplying Iran and the contras. In early 1982 Secord was placed on leave while a federal grand jury investigated his alleged ties to Edwin Wilson, a renegade CIA operative turned arms merchant. But with Carlucci's approval, Secord was soon reinstated. Secord, who was never indicted, was many rungs down in the hierarchy from Carlucci, and one of Carlucci's subordinates last week took responsibility...
Major General U.S.A.F. (ret.) Richard Secord, Iran-contra alum; procured a pricey home-security system for Ollie North: "Close National Airport, but you can't do that politically; Congressmen like to have their perks. Move the White House to Denver...