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Lately, Perot and his investigators have been interviewing people who have also been questioned by the Christic Institute, a Washington public-interest law firm. Christic last year filed a suit in Miami against Clines, Shackley, Secord, Singlaub, Hakim and 24 others; Armitage is mentioned several times but is not a defendant. The suit charges that some of the defendants became involved in drug smuggling from Southeast Asia in the early 1960s and later in a series of shady weapons deals around the world, using the profits to finance covert anti-Communist activities...
Inouye also said that a key figure in the case, former Air Force Major Gen. Richard Secord, may agree to testify voluntarily at committee hearings. Other principal figures, including former National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his former NSC aide, Oliver North, have cited their constitutional rights against self-incrimination in refusing to testify...
...another matter, one source said the Senate committee is expected to begin civil contempt proceedings against retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, who has refused to sign an order directing overseas banks to make available records from any accounts he might control...
What do the contras say about who supplied them with funds during 1984 and '85, when Congress officially had cut off their U.S. backing? Following a two-day session with a grand jury in Washington, Contra Leader Adolfo Calero declared that retired Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub had helped the Nicaraguan rebels to "engineer" arms deals worth millions of dollars. Calero also declared that his own contra group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, had received $32 million from non-American private donors. (Actually, most of that money is known to have come from Saudi Arabia's King Fahd...
...congressional source said the Senate panel is "moving toward a decision one way or the other" on whether to give immunity to Poindexter, the former national security adviser, and fired White House aide Lt. Col. Oliver North, and perhaps North's associate, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord...