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INTRODUCTION: URGENT!</p>
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<p> On July 5, 1987 the front page of the Miami Herald
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Newspaper carried a now famous article describing secret
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White House plans to:</p>
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<p> A.) DECLARE AN UNDEFINED "NATIONAL EMERGENCY,"</p>
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<p> B.) RE-OPEN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR PREVENTIVE
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DETENTION OF LEGAL DISSIDENTS CERTAIN ETHNIC
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GROUPS, AND</p>
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<p> C.) SUSPEND OUR UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION</p>
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<p> ---***---</p>
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<p> Those of us viewing the Iran-Contragate hearings,
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then being broadcast live on TV, had our curiousity peaked
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when one committee member began inquiring about an article
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alleging secret White House plans to suspend the
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Constitution.</p>
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<p> We were even more puzzled when committee chair
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Daniel Inouye interrupted him demanding all discussion on
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that question take place in closed session, out of public
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hearing.</p>
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<p> Not content to wonder, I researched the original
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article, transcribed it, and now present it to you for your
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urgent consideration. You have a right to read this. In
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fact, you'd better know about it because it's about secret
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White House plans to remove your rights by SUSPENDING OUR
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UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. It's about a government which
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we, the people, did NOT elect but which has gained power
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nonetheless.</p>
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<p> What follows is not the whole story but a crucial
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and overlooked part of it. Read "between the lines" and
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very carefully. This is not some paranoid's nightmare or
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some fanatic's fantasy. This is reality in the Reagan White
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House.</p>
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<p> ---***---</p>
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<p> Please copy this article and circulate it among
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your friends and co-workers. If George Bush gets into the
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White House, we'll have "elected," or had selected for us,
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precisely the same carnivorous crew comprising The Secret
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Government referred to in this article.</p>
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<p> ---***---</p>
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<p> First, I offer three appropriate quotes which
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provide a certain perspective in which to view what follows.
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Then, I present the "sidebar" articles which
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summarized and accompanied the main article.
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Finally, I give you the complete text of the
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original article, unedited and uncensored. While local
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papers ignored this historic article or presented only
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extracts from it, none of them gave you this, the entire
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text.</p>
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<p> ---***---</p>
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<p> The following did not appear with the original
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article but they provide a certain appropriate perspective
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on it:</p>
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<p> "Perception of reality is sometimes
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more important than reality itself."
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-Henry Kissenger</p>
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<p> "He who controls the past, controls the future.
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He who controls the present, controls the past."
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-O'Brian, the dictator
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in George Orwell's novel "1984"</p>
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<p> "If you don't like the news,
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go out and make some of your own!"
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-Scoop Nisker</p>
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<p> ===========================================================
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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===========================================================</p>
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<p> from THE MIAMI HERALD....SUNDAY JULY 5, 1987....page one:</p>
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<p> SOME SECRET ACTIVITIES</p>
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<p> Sources say the parallel government behind the
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Reagan administration engaged in secret actions
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including:</p>
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<p> A CONTINGENCY plan to suspend Constitution and impose
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martial law in United States in case of nuclear
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war or national rebellion.</p>
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<p> 1985 VISIT to Libya by William Wilson, then U.S. ambassador
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to Vatican and close Reagan friend, to meet with
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Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.</p>
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<p> HAVING ROUTES of sophisticated surveillance satellites
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altered to follow Soviet ships around world.</p>
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<p> LAUNCHING of spy aircraft on secret missions over Cuba and
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Nicaragua.</p>
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<p> PROPOSAL in 1981 to provide covert support of anti-
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Sandinista groups that fled Nicaragua after
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Sandinista revolution in 1979.</p>
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<p> DISSEMINATION of information that cast Nicaragua as threat
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to neighbors and United States.</p>
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<p> ---***---</p>
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<p> Before Reagan was elected, campaign aides who
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became the president's top advisers carried out
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these secret activities:</p>
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<p> CREATION in 1980 of October Surprise Group to monitor
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President Carter's negotiations with Iran for
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release of 52 American hostages. Group met with
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man who claimed to represent Iran and who offered
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to release hostages to Reagan. Offer declined,
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officials say.</p>
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<p> ACQUISITION of stolen confidential briefing materials from
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Carter's campaign before Oct. 28, 1980, Carter-
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Reagan debate.</p>
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<p> ---***---</p>
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<p> [photo captions:]</p>
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<p> PRINCIPALS:</p>
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<p> William Clark: Allowed bigger North role at NSC.
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William Casey: Kept guard on President Carter</p>
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<p> =============================================================
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*************************************************************
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=============================================================</p>
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<p> What follows is the complete text of the original article as
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printed in the Miami Herald for July 5, 1987:</p>
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<p> REAGAN AIDES AND THE 'SECRET' GOVERNMENT</p>
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<p> by ALFONSO CHARDY, HERALD WASHINGTON BUREAU</p>
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<p> WASHINGTON -- Some of President Reagan's top
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advisers have operated a virtual parallel government outside
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the traditional Cabinet departments and agencies almost from
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the day Reagan took office, congressional investigators and
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administration officials have concluded.</p>
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<p> Investigators believe that the advisers'
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activities extended well beyond the secret arms sales to
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Iran and aid to the contras now under investigation.</p>
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<p> Lt. Col. Oliver North, for example, helped draw up
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a controversial plan to suspend the Constitution in the
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event of a national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and
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widespread internal dissent or national opposition to a U.S.
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military invasion abroad.</p>
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<p> When the attorney general at the time, William
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French Smith, learned of the proposal, he protested in
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writing to North's boss, then-national security adviser
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Robert McFarlane.</p>
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<p> The advisers conducted their activities through
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secret contacts throughout the government with persons who
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acted at their direction but did not officially report to
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them.</p>
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<p> The activities of those contacts were coordinated
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by the National Security Council, the officials and
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investigators said.</p>
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<p> There appears to have been no formal directive for
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the advisers' activities, which knowledgeable sources
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described as a parallel government.</p>
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<p> In a secret assessment of the activities, the lead
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counsel for the Senate Iran-contra committee called it a
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"secret government-within-a-government."</p>
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<p> The arrangement permitted Reagan administration
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officials to claim that they were not involved in
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controversial or illegal activities, the officials said.</p>
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<p> "It was the ultimate plausible deniability," said
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a well-briefed official who has served the Reagan
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administration since 1982 and who often collaborated on
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covert assistance to the Nicaraguan contras.</p>
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<p> The roles of top-level officials and of Reagan
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himself are still not clear. But that is expected to be a
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primary topic when North appears before the Iran-contra
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committees beginning Tuesday. Special prosecutor Lawrence
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Walsh also is believed to be trying to prove in his
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investigation of the Iran-contra affair that government
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officials engaged in a criminal conspiracy.</p>
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<p> ADVISERS FORMED SHADOW GOVERNMENT, PROBERS SAY</p>
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<p> Much of the time, Cabinet secretaries and their
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aides were unaware of the advisers' activities. When they
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periodically detected operations, they complained or tried
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to derail them, interviews show.</p>
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<p> But no one ever questioned the activities in a
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broad way, possibly out of a belief that the advisers were
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operating with presidential
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sanction, officials said.</p>
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<p> Reagan did know of or approve at least some of the
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actions of the secret group, according to previous accounts
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by aides, friends and high-ranking foreign officials.</p>
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<p> One such case is the 1985 visit to Libya by
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William Wilson, then-U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and a
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close Reagan friend, to meet with Libyan leader Col. Moammar
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Gadhafi, officials said last week. Secretary of State
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George Shultz rebuked Wilson, but the officials said Reagan
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knew of the trip in advance.</p>
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<p> The heart of the secret structure from 1983 to
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1986 was North's office in the Old Executive Office Building
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adjacent to the White House, investigators believe.</p>
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<p> North's influence within the secret structure was
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so great, the sources said, that he was able to have the
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orbits of sophisticated surveillance satellites altered to
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follow Soviet ships around the world, call for the launching
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of high-flying spy aircraft on secret missions over Cuba and
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Nicaragua and become involved in sensitive domestic
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activities.</p>
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<p> Many initiatives</p>
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<p> Others in the structure included some of Reagan's
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closest friends and advisers, including former national
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security adviser William Clark, the late CIA Director
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William Casey and Attorney General Edwin Meese, officials
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and investigators said.</p>
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<p> Congressional investigators said the Iran deal was
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just one of the group's initiatives. They say exposure of
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the unusual arrangement may be the legacy of their inquiry.</p>
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<p> "After we establish that a policy decision was
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made at the highest levels to transfer responsibility for
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contra support to the NSC..., we favor examining how that
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decision was implemented," wrote Arthur Liman, chief counsel
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of the Senate committee, in a secret memorandum to panel
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leaders Sens. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and Warren Rudman, R-
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N.H., before hearings began May 5.</p>
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<p> "This is the part of the story that reveals the
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whole secret government-within-a-government, operated from
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the [Executive Office Building] by a Lt. Col., with its own
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army, air force, diplomatic agents, intelligence operatives
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and appropriations capacity," Limon wrote in the memo, parts
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of which were shared with The Herald.</p>
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<p> A spokesman for Liman declined comment but did not
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dispute the memo's existence.</p>
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<p> A White House official rejected the notion that
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any of Reagan's advisers were operating secretly.</p>
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<p> "The president has constantly expressed his
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foreign policy positions to the public and has consulted
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with the Congress," the official said.</p>
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<p> Began in 1980</p>
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<p> Congressional investigators and current and former
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officials interviewed -- members of the CIA, State
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Department and Pentagon -- said they still do not have a
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full record of the impact of the the advisers' activities.</p>
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<p> But based on investigations and personal
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experience, they believe the secret governing arrangement
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traces its roots to the last weeks of Reagan's 1980
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campaign.</p>
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<p> Officials say the genesis may have been an October
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1980 decision by Casey, Reagan's campaign manager and a
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former officer in the World War II precursor of the CIA, to
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create an October Surprise Group to monitor Jimmy Carter's
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feverish negotiations with Iran for the release of 52
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American hostages.</p>
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<p> The group, led by campaign foreign policy adviser
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Richard Allen, was founded out of concern Carter might pull
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off an "October surprise" such as a last-minute deal for the
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release of the hostages before the Nov. 4 election. One of
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the group's first acts was a meeting with a man claiming to
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represent Iran who offered to release the hostages to
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Reagan.</p>
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<p> Allen -- Reagan's first national security adviser--
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and another campaign aide, Laurence Silberman, told The
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Herald in April of the meeting. they said McFarlane, then a
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Senate Armed Services Committee aide, arranged and attended
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it. McFarlane later became Reagan's national security
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adviser and played a key role in the Iran-contra affair.
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Allen and Silberman said they rejected the offer to release
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the hostages to Reagan.</p>
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<p> Briefing book theft</p>
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<p> Congressional aides now link another well-known
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campaign incident -- the theft of confidential briefing
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materials from Carter's campaign before the Oct. 28, 1980,
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Carter-Reagan debate -- to the same group of advisers.</p>
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<p> They believe that Casey obtained the briefing
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materials and passed them to James Baker, another top
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Reagan campaign aide, who was White House chief of staff in
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Reagan's first term.</p>
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<p> Once Reagan was sworn in, the group moved quickly
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to set itself up, officials said. Within months, the
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advisers were clashing with officials in the traditional
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agencies.</p>
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<p> Six weeks after Reagan was sworn in, apparently
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over State Department objections, then-CIA director Casey
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submitted a proposal to Reagan calling for covert support of
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anti-Sandinista groups that had fled Nicaragua after the
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1979 revolution.</p>
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<p> [THE IRAN-CONTRA CONNECTION:
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NORTH HAD BIG ROLE IN INNER CIRCLE, INVESTIGATORS SAY]</p>
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<p> It is still unclear whether Casey cleared the plan
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with Reagan. But In November 1981 the CIA secretly flew an
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Argentine military leader, Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, to
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Washington to devise a secret agreement under which
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Argentine military officers trained Nicaraguan rebels,
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according to an administration official familiar with the
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agreement.</p>
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<p> About the same time, North completed his transfer
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to the NSC from the Marine Corps. Those who worked with
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North in 1981 remember his first assignments as routine,
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although not unimportant.</p>
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<p> North, they recalled, was briefly assigned to
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carry the "football," the briefcase containing the secret
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contingency plans for fighting a nuclear war, which is taken
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everywhere the president goes. North later widened his
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assignment to cover national crisis contingency planning.
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In that capacity he became involved with the controversial
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national crisis plan drafted by the Federal Emergency
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Management Agency.</p>
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<p> NATIONAL CRISIS PLAN</p>
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<p> From 1982 to 1984, North assisted FEMA, the U.S.
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government's chief national crisis-management unit, in
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revising contingency plans for dealing with nuclear war,
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insurrection or massive military mobilization.</p>
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<p> North's involvement with FEMA set off the first
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major clash between the official government and the advisers
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and led to the formal letter of protest in 1984 from then-
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Attorney General Smith.</p>
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<p> Smith was in Europe last week and could not be
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reached for comment.</p>
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<p> But a government official familiar with North's
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collaboration with FEMA said then-Director Louis O.
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Guiffrida, a close friend of Meese's, mentioned North in
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meetings during that time as FEMA's NSC contact.</p>
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<p> Guiffrida could not be reached for comment, but
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FEMA spokesman Bill McAda confirmed the relationship.</p>
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<p> "Officials of FEMA met with Col. North during 1982
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to 1984," McAda said. "These meetings were appropriate to
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Col. North's duties with the National Security Council and
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FEMA's responsibilities in certain areas of national
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security."</p>
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<p> FEMA's clash with Smith occurred over a secret
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contingency plan that called for suspension of the
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Constitution, turning control of the United States over to
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FEMA, appointment of military commanders to run state and
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local governments and declaration of martial law during a
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national crisis.</p>
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<p> The plan did not define national crisis, but it
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was understood to be nuclear war, violent and widespread
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internal dissent or national opposition against a military
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invasion abroad.</p>
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<p> PLAN WAS PROTESTED</p>
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<p> The official said the contingency plan was written
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as part of an executive order or legislative package that
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Reagan would sign and hold within the NSC until a severe
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crisis arose.</p>
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<p> The martial law portions of the plan were outlined
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in a June 30, 1982, memo by Guiffrida's deputy for national
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preparedness programs, John Brinkerhoff. A copy of the memo
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was obtained by The Herald.</p>
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<p> The scenario outlined in the Brinkerhoff memo
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resembled somewhat a paper Guiffrida had written in 1970 at
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the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., in which he advocated
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martial law in case of a national uprising by black
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militants. The paper also advocated the roundup and
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transfer to "assembly centers or relocation camps" of at
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least 21 million "American Negroes."</p>
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<p> When he saw the FEMA plans, Attorney General Smith
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became alarmed. He dispatched a letter to McFarlane Aug. 2,
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1984 lodging his objections and urging a delay in signing
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the directive.</p>
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<p> "I believe that the role assigned to the Federal
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Emergency Management Agency in the revised Executive Order
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exceeds its proper function as a coordinating agency for
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emergency preparedness," Smith said in the letter to
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McFarlane, which The Herald obtained. "This department and
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others have repeatedly raised serious policy and legal
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objections to the creation of an 'emergency czar' role for
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FEMA."</p>
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<p> It is unclear whether the executive order was
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signed or whether it contained the martial law plans.
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Congressional sources familiar with national disaster
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procedures said they believe Reagan did sign an executive
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order in 1984 that revised national military mobilization
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measures to deal with civilians in case of nuclear war or
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other crisis.</p>
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<p> ORCHESTRATED NEWS LEAKS</p>
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<p> Around the time that issue was producing fireworks
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with the administration, McFarlane and Casey reassigned
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North from national crisis planning to international covert
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management of the contras. The transfer came after North
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took a personal interest, realizing that neither the State
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Department nor any other government agency wanted to handle
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the issue after it became clear early in 1984 that Congress
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was moving to bar official aid to the rebels.</p>
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<p> The new assignment, plus North's natural
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organizational ability, creativity and the sheer energy he
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dedicated to the issue, gradually led to an expansion of his
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power and stature within the covert structure, officials and
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investigators believe.</p>
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<p> Meese also was said to have played a role in the
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secret government, investigators now believe, but his role
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is less clear.</p>
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<p> Meese sometimes referred private American citizens
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to the NSC so they could be screened and contacted for
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soliciting support for the Nicaraguan contras.</p>
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<p> One of those supporters, Philip Mabry of Fort
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Worth, told The Herald earlier this year that in 1983 he was
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told by fellow conservatives in Texas to contact Meese, then
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White House counselor, if he wanted to help the contras.
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After he contacted Meese's office, Mabry received a letter
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from Meese obtained by The Herald advising him that his name
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had been given to the "appropriate people."</p>
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<p> Shortly thereafter, Mabry said, a woman who
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identified herself as Meese's secretary gave him the name
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and phone number of another NSC secretary who, in turn, gave
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him North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, as contacts.</p>
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<p> Meese's Justice Department spokesman, Patrick
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Korten, denies that Meese was part of North's secret contra
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supply network and notes that Meese does not recall having
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referred anyone to North on contra-related matters.</p>
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<p> In addition to North's role as contra commander
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and fund-raiser, North became secret overseer of the State
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Department's Office of Public Diplomacy, through which the
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Reagan administration disseminated information that cast
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Nicaragua as a threat to its neighbors and the United
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States.</p>
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<p> An intelligence source familiar with North's
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relationship with that office said North was directly
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involved in many of the best publicized news leaks,
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including the Nov. 4, 1984, Election Day announcement that
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Soviet-made MiG jet fighters were on their way to Nicaragua.</p>
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<p> McFarlane is now believed to have been the senior
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administration official who told reporters that the Soviet
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cargo ship Bakuriani, en route to Nicaragua from a Soviet
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Black Sea port, was probably carrying MiGs.</p>
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<p> The intelligence official said North apparently
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recommended that the information be leaked to the press on
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Election Day so it would reach millions of people watching
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election results. CBS and NBC broadcast the report that
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night.</p>
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<p> CLARK HAD KEY ROLE</p>
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<p> The leak led to a new clash between the regular
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bureaucracy and the president's advisers. The official
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State Department spokesman, John Hughes, tried hard to play
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down the report, pointing out that it was unproven that the
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Bakuriani was carrying MiGs. At the same time, employees of
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the Office of Public Diplomacy, acting under North's
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direction, insisted that the crates were inside the ship and
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that MiGs were still a possibility.</p>
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<p> To take a closer look, the source said, North
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requested a high-flying SR-71 Blackbird spy aircraft be sent
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from Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, Calif., to fly
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over the Nicaraguan port of Corinto while the Bakuriani
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unloaded its cargo. The pictures showed that the Bakuriani
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unloaded helicopters, not MiGs.</p>
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<p> North was not the only adviser who operated
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outside traditional government channels, investigators have
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concluded.</p>
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<p> Others were known as the RIGLET, a semi-official
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unit made up of North; Alan Fiers, a CIA Central American
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affairs officer; and Elliott Abrams, the current assistant
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secretary of state for inter-American affairs, according to
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Abrams' subordinate Richard Melton. Melton revealed the
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existence of the RIGLET in a deposition given to the Iran-
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contra committees. The name is a diminutive for RIG, which
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stands for Restricted Interagency Group.</p>
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<p> Among the RIGLET's actions was ordering the U.S.
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ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, to assist the contras
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in setting up a front in southern Nicaragua. Tambs, who
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resigned suddenly last year after his links to North were
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revealed, testified about the instructions to Iran-contra
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investigators.</p>
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<p> But perhaps the key to the parallel government was
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the role played by Reagan's second national security
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adviser, William Clark. It was during Clark's tenure that
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North began to gain influence in the NSC.</p>
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<p> Clark also recruited several midlevel officers
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from the Pentagon and the CIA to work on a special Central
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American task force in 1983 to push aid for El Salvador, a
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task force member said.</p>
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<p> "Judge Clark was the granddaddy of the system," he
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said. "I was working at the Pentagon on another issue when
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my boss said that because of special circumstances, I was to
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be reassigned to the task force."</p>
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<p> A former administration official familiar with
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Clark's activities said Clark also had approved contacts
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between Vatican Ambassador Wilson and Libya before Wilson's
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November 1985 journey, which came after McFarlane replaced
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Clark at the NSC.</p>
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<p> The former official said Wilson also had carried
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out secret missions for the Reagan administration in a Latin
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American country where Wilson reportedly maintained contacts
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with high-level officials. The source asked that the
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country not be identified because the system is still in
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place and had reduced tensions by circumventing the regular
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bureaucracies of both countries.</p>
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<p> Calls to Wilson's and Clark's offices in
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California were not returned.</p>
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