Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secord had a bird's-eye view of the entire affair. As president of a company selling arms around the world, the retired two-star general provided aircraft and crews to ship weapons to Iran, accompanied former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on his secret mission to Tehran, purchased short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for the contras and was in charge of coordinating munitions drops for the rebels...
...Secord. In his three decades of military service, he was involved in clandestine operations wherever things were hottest around the world. After seeing action as a fighter pilot in Viet Nam, he was attached to a CIA force in Thailand to supervise flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic equipment to the Shah...
Friends say Secord has been itching to tell his story, but did not decide to do so until he was allowed by the congressional committee to inspect secret bank records, controlled by Hakim, which convinced him that he had no legal culpability. House Chairman Lee Hamilton is certain that Secord's testimony will go right to the heart of Iranscam. "Secord is a comprehensive witness," says Hamilton. "There aren't many of them in this drama. Most of the witnesses who will follow him will fill in the gaps...
...probe goes far beyond the unhinged arms-for-hostages deals with Iran and the siphoning of profits to the Nicaraguan contras, which formed the focus of the Tower board's report in February. Instead, a central issue this time will be the role Administration officials played in pursuing a secret and possibly illegal foreign policy by using a shady cadre of private and semiprivate operatives to supply military aid to the contras when such aid was restricted by Congress...
...compiled an interesting list of 26 witnesses for the first phase, which some staffers refer to as an exploration of "Contra, Inc." Secord will be followed by Robert McFarlane, the former National Security Adviser, who has testified extensively about his unfortunate dealings with Iran but not about the secret contra resupply. He was at NSC when the Boland Amendment banned direct military aid to the rebels...