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...report's most notable conclusions, the bipartisan majority declares flatly that the profits generated by the sale of U.S. arms to Iran were the rightful property of the Federal Government, not of the so-called enterprise operated by retired Major General Richard Secord and his Iranian- born partner, Albert Hakim. Diverting those profits to the Nicaraguan contras "constituted a misappropriation of government funds," the report claims. If Walsh and a federal grand jury concur, Secord and Hakim may face indictments. So, too, may former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who approved the diversion, and former-NSC Staffer Oliver North...
...conduct covert operations and then failing to monitor the activity closely to see that it was kept within the boundaries of the law. NSC staff members were "out of control," the report says, with Oliver North and Poindexter "privatizing" foreign policy and allowing retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and his business partner, Albert Hakim, to handle American negotiations with Iran and control huge sums of money from the transactions...
...jacket, make much of its revelations about the Iran-Contra affair. But they shouldn't. As is the case with Bob Woodward's Veil, portions of this book that deal with the arms for hostages swap are somewhat afterthoughtish. After appearing on the jacket, the name Richard Secord does not come up again until page 273; Ollie North comes up at about the same point but figures even less prominently in Kwitny's narrative...
What The Crimes of Patriots does provide, however, is the disquieting realization that Oliver North and Richard Secord are merely a few of a much larger number who storm across the globe, advancing highly idiosyncratic versions of U.S. foreign policy. As Kwitny writes: "Actors come and go. It is the roles that stay, and that we need to be concerned with...
Calero will face charges in Miami Federal Court next spring when he and 28 other alleged co-conspirators will go on trial for racketeering, drug-running, and terrorism. Contragate's "Secret Team" of Secord, Singlaub, Shackley, Rodriguez, Hakim, Owen and Clines et al. are joined with Calero as defendants charged under RICO, the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations...