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...fired from the NSC staff when the scandal broke, and his former boss Poindexter, the National Security Adviser, who resigned at the same time, have repeatedly been identified as prime movers in the whole mess; they reiterated their refusal to testify last week. Others who did the same: Richard Secord, a retired Air Force general who was deeply involved in funneling aid to the contras and who, it turned out last week, was also involved in arms and hostage negotiations; Robert Dutton, an associate of Secord's; Robert Owen, allegedly a liaison between North and the contras. Robert Earl...
...congressional oversight that might thwart secret operations. Aside from other players, the Saudis may have taken a major role, though they deny it. According to the New York Times, the Saudis and the U.S. began in 1983 to discuss supplying arms to the contras. Those involved included North, Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim, a former Iranian businessman who had ties to the Saudis. At some point within the past year the contra supply effort apparently became intertwined with the Iranian arms deals...
...seeking. But inMoultrie, Ga., Maule Aircraft Corp. said it hadreceived subpoenas for records on four aircraftfrom the U.S. attorney's office in Macon as wellfrom the Senate committee. The four airplanesinclude one reportedly sold to rebels in Nicaraguaby a firm headed by retired Air Force Maj. Gen.Richard V. Secord...
...Secord has been identified by administrationofficials as an assistant to fired NationalSecurity Council aide Oliver North in arrangingthe Iranian arms sales and creation of a privatelyfunded air force to deliver weapons to the Contraforces...
...bills also showed calls to Stanford Technology Trading Corp. in suburban Virginia, a firm headed by retired Army Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, a former assistant deputy secretary of defense, who reportedly helped arrange aid for the Contras from Saudi Arabia...