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...convoluted tale began in April 1985, when two of North's shadowy private partners, Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, hired a 163-ft. Danish ship, the Veralil, to ferry weapons to the contras. The ship was loaded with Soviet AK-47 guns in Poland, then sent to Portugal to pick up ammunition. Documents said the ship was headed for Guatemala, but she docked in Honduras, where the contras collected the weapons...
...following year she was less successful. In April 1986 Hakim and Secord bought the ship outright, using money from the infamous account at the Credit Suisse Bank in Geneva that they controlled with North. They rechristened her the Erria, and she was sent to Cyprus to wait while negotiators worked to release four American hostages. Four camp beds were taken on board, and the Erria made her way to the Lebanese coast. But the deal fell through, and she was recalled to Denmark...
Although the Senate report provides a chronology of the Iran affair, Boren ! stressed that the investigation is still incomplete. That was bound to be the case, since some of Iranscam's key players -- North, Poindexter and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, whom the panel identifies as a principal conduit of supplies to the contras -- exercised their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify. Nevertheless, the report will serve as an essential point of reference for the congressional select committees investigating the scandal...
...Reagan was briefed by Poindexter on an Israeli proposal to ship a "significant quantity" of East bloc weapons to the Nicaraguan rebels. Chief of Staff Regan told the President that if Peres brought up the matter, "just say thanks." The committee found evidence that a shipment was engineered by Secord and Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
...Excerpts: "I met in Washington, in July or August 1986, with Robert McFarlane, who briefed me on the hostage negotiations involving arms to Iran as an inducement. Between the dates of Oct. 30 and Nov. 4, 1986, I had numerous conversations with Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and Richard V. Secord relating to the hostage negotiations . . . I received and sent numerous 'back channel' messages to and from the White House . . . using CIA communications facilities." Said Shultz: "I am, to put it mildly, shocked to learn this after the event from an ambassador." He called Kelly back to Washington to face questioning...