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...explosive this investigation could be was revealed last week, when Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh secured the scandal's first guilty plea, one that led uncomfortably close to the Oval Office. Conservative Fund Raiser Carl ("Spitz") Channell admitted he had conspired to defraud the Government by using a tax-exempt "charitable" foundation to send military supplies to the contras. He named former National Security Council Aide Lieut. Colonel Oliver North as his "co-conspirator." North had not only helped persuade donors to give to Channell but had also successfully urged Ronald Reagan to thank many...
...knew nothing about thediversion of arms sales profits to the contrasduring a time when Congress had banned U.S. helpfor the guerrillas. He also has said he met withdonors to a private foundation set up to raisemoney for the contras, but said he thought thefoundation run by Carl R. "Spitz" Channell wasonly seeking the money to pay for pro-contratelevision...
...firm also was retained by Washington fund-raiser Carl "Spitz" Channell to help conduct a pro-Contra public relations campaign and funnel privately raised money to the Contras. Channell associates have said that as much as $3 million in private aid was given to IBC for humanitarian aid to the Contras...
...drops of munitions in Nicaragua. A hand-drawn chart that was found in North's office safe shows the complex path of money from private fund-raising organizations to various shadowy corporations. The chart suggests a link between two fund-raising organizations run by North's ally, Conservative Carl ("Spitz") Channell, and such corporations as Lake Resources, Udall and Trans World Arms, all of which have been connected to the contra-supply effort. Between the fall of 1984 and the end of 1986, North helped raise tens of millions for the contras...
...relatively unknown National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty. The money, said the Sun, was used "to boost conservative candidates in the U.S. and to oppose critics of the Reagan Administration's Central American policy." No other news organization has confirmed the story, which the endowment's director, Carl ("Spitz") Channell, denounced as "outrageous, libelous lies...