Nicaraguan fighters

Usage examples of contras.

Since 1981, Reagan had authorized a covert CIA operation to assist the contras in the overthrow of the leftist Nicaraguan government.

Press reports said that after Congress cut off funding, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North ran private support operations for the contras out of the National Security Council.

A possible connection between the Iran operation and the contras set off a warning bell for Shultz.

North had set up using Swiss bank accounts for the Iran arms sales, the secret contras resupply and other covert operations.

They had some information which suggested that Reagan had said something about getting North to find some money for the contras when Congress was debating the contra funding.

Back on June 25, 1984, the minutes of his meeting with his foreign policy team showed that Reagan wanted to go to other countries to get money for the contras in place of U.

Congress cut off funding in 1984, to hold the contras together body and soul might be cited as general presidential authority.

Iran and the contras had never before been tied together in his mind, nor did he recall receiving any reports hinting of any connection between Iran and the contras.

Reagan said in 1984, as Congress was cutting off funding, that he wanted to keep the contras together body and soul?

November events of last year when the diversion of funds to the contras was made public?

He was confident that Reagan had done nothing unlawful, that he had not known about the diversion of funds to the contras and could testify truthfully.

Congress for passing the laws restricting aid to the contras and the arms embargo with Iran.

Saudi Arabia to contribute millions of dollars to the contras when Congress had denied U.

Tribe wrote that the restrictions on using government funds for the contras applied to the president, who could not resort to private fund-raising.

Once trained, the Contras were to be infiltrated across the border intoNicaraguato bring down the Sandinista regime.