Senator seeks probe of group tied to Oliver North
Senator Howard Metzenbaum urged a Joint Committee on Taxation inquiry into whether political pressure influenced the IRS to grant tax exempt status to the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty led by Carl Channell. IRS said no outside contacts were found. exemption granted December 1984 after filing.
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Ohio
Oliver North
Metzenbaum
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Carl “Spitz
Nancy Coffey
Channell
North
White House
National Security Council
U.S
Nicaragua
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Senate Committee
IRS
Wilson Fadely
Channell Endowment
Fadely
White House ridiculed fake kidnap plot from NSC official
Oliver North told White House colleagues a bizarre unfounded tale of kidnapping Iranian leaders’ relatives and holding them in cages in Europe to trade for hostages in Lebanon. Officials said there were no plans and few took the story seriously amid North’s firing and public praise by Reagan. The account emerged as the Los Angeles Times reported it and linked to Tehran arms shipments in 1983.
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North
National Security Council
Nicaragua
Reagan
Dan Howard
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Major
Los Angeles Times
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al Shiraa
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Tehran
FBI
The
Times
Shultz bars envoys from bypassing him in communications
Secretary of State George P. Shultz ordered all American ambassadors to avoid private talks with the White House national security adviser unless directed by the president. The cable aims to curb back channel communications linked to the Iran hostages affair and Beirut diplomacy involving Poindexter North Secord. John H. Kelly, ambassador to Beirut, was summoned to explain his actions after meeting with Shultz.
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North
Secord
David P. Jacobsen
Iran
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Kelly
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