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...number of recently retired CIA and Pentagon officials, having been through the wars together in Southeast Asia, formed a kind of old-boys network. Theodore Shackley, who knew Secord in Laos and had been the CIA's station chief in Saigon, worked from 1981 to 1983 as a consultant for Secord's business partner Albert Hakim. Shackley had been a candidate to become head of covert operations before his career was sidetracked by Turner. Another former Shackley associate at the CIA, Thomas Clines, helped Secord establish logistics for North's operation to supply the Nicaraguan contras...
...what he claims were his professional and commercial ties with several of the individuals implicated in the sub-rosa schemes run by Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. In particular, Wilson mentions retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and former high-level CIA Officials Thomas G. Clines and Theodore G. Shackley. All of them, he says (and has said previously to prosecutors who did not believe him), were partners of his in deals carried out by Eatsco (for Egyptian American Transport & Services Co.), which he financed for Clines and the others in 1978 in order to reap millions in Middle East...
...General's office and the Justice Department established that Eatsco had skimmed some $8 million in unearned profits from the weapons sales. The company paid over $3 million in penalties, and Clines, who ran Eatsco, paid $110,000 in fines for filing false invoices with the Pentagon. Secord and Shackley, who Wilson claims were silent partners in the affair, denied any involvement with Eatsco. Secord, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, was briefly suspended from duty in 1982; he was reinstated but soon resigned his commission because, as he told the Iran committee, "the fact that...
...Although the Iran-contra hearings are not directly concerned with Eatsco's operations, committee investigators have privately interviewed Shirley Brill, a former CIA administrator and companion of Clines'. Brill informed the investigators last week that Clines told her that Wilson, Secord, Shackley and Erich von Marbod, a former Defense Department official, were partners with him in Eatsco. Von Marbod, who retired from the Pentagon in 1981 at the same time that the Eatsco inquiry began, has not been implicated in the Iran-contra scandal...
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...