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From 9/11 Encyclopedia:
In October and November 1986, two secret U.S. Government
operations were publicly exposed, potentially implicating Reagan
Administration officials in illegal activities. These operations were
the provision of assistance to the military activities of the
Nicaraguan contra rebels during an October 1984 to October 1986
prohibition on such aid, and the sale of U.S. arms to Iran in
contravention of stated U.S. policy and in possible violation of
arms-export controls. In late November 1986, Reagan Administration
officials announced that some of the proceeds from the sale of U.S.
arms to Iran had been diverted to the contras with the help of Oliver
North (->), who was later convicted of altering and
destroying
documents. The Iran operations were carried out with the knowledge of,
among others, President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush,
Secretary of State George P. Shultz (->), Secretary of Defense
Caspar W. Weinberger, Director
of Central Intelligence William
J. Casey
(->), and national security advisers Robert C. McFarlane
and John M. Poindexter (->)
Source: http://www.webcom.com/pinknoiz/covert/icsummary.html
Only 15 years, some of the former Iran-Contra key persons, had been given jobs in the current Bush administration:
. JOHN POINDEXTER (->)
Reagan national security adviser during Iran-Contra, the retired admiral is director of the Pentagon's Information Awareness Office. Created after the September 11 terror attacks, the office uses computer technology to detect and analyze new kinds of military threats, including those from terrorist organizations. Poindexter was convicted in 1990 on five felony counts of conspiracy, making false statements to Congress and obstructing congressional inquiries. In 1991, an appellate court overturned the convictions and similar ones against former White House aide Oliver North. The court held that the government had improperly used immunized congressional testimony against them.
. ELLIOTT ABRAMS A former assistant secretary of state
for Western Hemisphere affairs, Abrams was hired by Bush in 2001 as special White House assistant for democracy and human rights. Abrams pleaded guilty to withholding Iran-Contra information from Congress and was among six Iran-Contra figures pardoned on Dec. 24, 1992, by the first President Bush.
. OTTO REICH His nomination as assistant