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...wanted a picture of himself below the giant statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the man who started the Cheka, progenitor of the KGB. The statue stands in a circle in front of the building. Helms tried to make his way across the congested street but could not. The policeman refused to halt the rushing traffic. Helms stopped, chuckled and went off -- just as George Smiley would have done...
...billed another of his firms (Lake Resources) $100,357 for the salaries of private American pilots used in air-dropping weapons to the contras. This, said Rudman, meant that the pilots should have been getting $450 a day. In fact, according to Rudman and a witness, former CIA Agent Felix Rodriguez, the pilots were paid at most $150 a day, suggesting that East, Inc., earned about $35,000 on this transaction alone. Secord and his partners, declared Rudman, "were not only arms dealers, they were flesh peddlers...
Earlier in the day, former CIA operative Felix I. Rodriguez told the House-Senate hearings that he broke with the clandestine resupply operation for the rebels--run by North--after becoming disgusted with overcharges, bribery and deliveries of unreliable ammunition...
...role of the NSC staff in setting up this contra-supply network will be explored through the testimony of such Secord associates as Robert Dutton and Richard Gadd, both of whom are believed to have worked closely with North. Then Felix Rodriguez, identified as a CIA agent who uses the moniker Max Gomez, will be asked to explain his job as liaison between El Salvador's air force and private pilots, some of whom wound up air-dropping supplies to the contras from Salvador's Ilopango Air Base. Recommended for his role by Donald Gregg, a top aide to Vice...
...solve. Foremost among them: he must reach an accord with Rebel Leader Goukouni Oueddei, a former President of Chad himself and Gaddafi ally whose forces last year joined with Habre's to help defeat the Libyans. But after an unproductive meeting last week between Goukouni and Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, who is trying to mediate between the two leaders, the President and the rebel commander reportedly remain far apart on issues ranging from Chad's provisional constitution to Goukouni's role in a new government...