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	Contragate and Counterterrorism: An Overview
		The theme "Contragate and Counterterrorism" was chosen to highlight the wrongdoing and strategic excesses of the Reagan presidency.
		Contragate is at once the story of an ideological anticommunist crusade laced by petty corruption and bureaucratic competition, and an elite-level battle over control of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus.
		Contragate shares characteristics with previous rightwing initiatives, and there have been signs of changes underway in the rightwing "establishment" that could presage further oligarchic consolidation upward.
	www.socialjusticejournal.org /SJEdits/27-8Edit.html (9302 words)

	Global Rollback Network Rollback
		Contragate is simply another chapter in a forty-year pursuit of global rollback by a committed cadre of U.S. covert operatives in conjunction with a growing, domestic and international right-wing network.
		In 1981, he served in the ClA-supported Nicaraguan contra training camp run by the Argentinians in Honduras, and at the time of Contragate was in charge of logistics at the Salvadoran Ilopongo airbase supplying the contras.
		He has been identified as a member of Operation 40, an elite force recruited by the ClA which had to be closed down after one of its planes crashed with several kilos of cocaine and heroin aboard.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Foreign_Policy/GlobalRollbackNetwork.html (8892 words)

	[CTRL] George Bush, Spymaster General
		To appreciate the importance of the new revelations—and the extraordinary effectiveness of Bush's cover-up—you have to recall what he and his former aides have said about their role in Contragate.
		In March, according to the North trial stipulation, Casey proposed another aid pitch to the Israelis (the result was Operation Tipped Kettle II), and shortly thereafter, newly appointed national security adviser Robert McFarlane scored a breakthrough with the Saudis, persuading them to contribute $1 million a month to the contras' war chest.
		With Bush so personally vulnerable to fallout from Contragate, he and his staff immediately launched a damage-control gambit of their own.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg41777.html (5168 words)

	JoT Politics Bush7
		Researching Ollie North (to respond to you) taught me that convicted Contragate conspirator Elliot Abrams is back in another Bush administration, once again supporting Latin American coups.
		It would be unfair to take away a candidate's victory an account of their not winning a plurality, but it's certainly fair to gripe about a system that allowed the nation's number two choice to take office, and fair to remind people that this guy was the number two choice.
		Maybe Elliot Abrams, also convicted of lying as part of Contragate, wouldn't even now [2002] be heading the National Security Council's office of democracy, human rights, and international operations (in which position he supported the recent coup in Venezuela).
	www.jonathantweet.com /jotpoliticsbush7.html (1056 words)

	Reagan's Band Of True Believers - New York Times
		LEAD: The words ''radical'' and ''anarchic'' are used repeatedly in Frances FitzGerald's article to describe Oliver North and the contragate scammers.
		The corruption of Government officials who are willing and eager to break the law for their own ends, and for the purpose of violent oppression, should not be linguistically confused with the goal of freedom from all government and oppression, which is the goal of anarchism.
		The words ''radical'' and ''anarchic'' are used repeatedly in Frances FitzGerald's article to describe Oliver North and the contragate scammers.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DD113DF934A35755C0A961948260 (181 words)

	The Reagan Years -- Reading Up on Contragate & Operation Red Rock : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The "Contragate" years teem with well documented accounts of illicit wholesale gun running and dope smuggling.
		The expose series published in Autumn 1996 by the San Jose Mercury Post, entitled the "Dark Alliance," openly finger-points at the CIA and the Reagan administration for turning a blind-eye to massive Cocaine smuggling.
		Most, if not all, of these names are readily familiar to Contragate investigators and journalists covering this story.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1696776 (3670 words)

	Justifying the Lying when it counts -- the function of the media \| TPMCafe
		It wasn't just the nuclear freeze and the end of the Cold War (though much credited to Reagan actually from the Soviet side and Gorbachev, as the awning in front of the Second Avenue Deli announced to millions for years ("Thank You Gorbachev") before its owner was mysteriously murdered, in the real America.
		The end of the Cold War and Contragate combined with a variety of overt and other political forces to change the thinking of the mainstream, particularly among that majority of Americans who don't vote.
		Since then the press has only pretended to the popularity of rightwing politics, grasping the much aura-conferred label of conservative but not the consistent divergence of public opinion from Republicans on most concrete issues, dating back at least to the Reagan era.
	warrenreports.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/10/3/165045/750 (948 words)

	The Book on Richard Perle
		They were caught in what was dubbed “Contragate,” a vastly more pervasive violation of constitutional statutes than the Watergate”; break-in that brought down Richard Nixon a decade earlier.
		Elliot Abrams figured most prominently in the Contragate scandal, though Richard Perle also had a supporting role.
		But unlike the Nixon crew, the Contragate conspirators beat the rap, largely because Congress feared the revelation of too many secrets hidden on both sides of the aisles.
	work.colum.edu /~amiller/pp051303.htm (2784 words)

	PoliBrain Blog: Politics, Arts, Literature, Ideas: Politics and 9/11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is certainly not the first commissioned analysis to degenerate into politics - I guess most of them do.
		Recently Bill Clinton's impeachment was a political undertaking, and further back Contragate which detailed constitutional malfeasance didn't survive the politics of it all.
		Threatening a witness who may have valuable information with now analyzing sworn testimony while employed by the white house with the testimony given as a "whistle blower" is an interesting tactic.
	www.drpribut.com /mt/archives/000174.html (398 words)

	The Idler,vIIn91
		His ContraGate "Second State" practically gave away the Office of President.
		The President's anagram, Donald Regan, it was revealed, was informally referred to in Washington as the Prime Minister.
		Repeat: Crisis is the built-in characteristic of all large and complex organizations.
	www.geocities.com /dcjarviks/Idler/vIIn91.html (766 words)

	"The Contragate Follies" from Chopped Liver Productions
		This is where Chopped Liver Productions got started.
		Watching the Contragate hearings in the summer of 1987, we said, "This Ollie North character really deserves his own theme song!" So we came up with "Ballad of a Brave Marine" and offered it to the Program Director at KPFA in Berkeley, who quickly put it on the air.
		This program aired nationally on Pacifica Radio, and on 30 community radio stations across the country, in the fall of 1987.
	www.choppedliverproductions.com /store/cf.html (193 words)

	Untitled
		Steady backstep As he began research on the story, Gary Webb didn't know what was at risk.
		When he first spoke with Bob Parrythe Associated Press reporter who, along with Brian Barger, broke the Contragate and Contra/drug storiesWebb thought Parry was being "overly cautious." "I thought he was being kind of foolish," Webb recalled, when Parry asked him: "Are you sure you want to ruin your career?" Webb kept digging.
		Recalling the press freeze-out in response to AP's initial Contragate investigations, Webb said, "What [the national media] did with Parry and Barger was try and ignore them, and to a large extent, they succeeded.
	www.csun.edu /CommunicationStudies/ben/news/cia/980400.osborn.html (1249 words)

	JoT Politics Bush7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If it were true, maybe the two Reagan-appointed appellate-court judges that overturned his multiple convictions wouldn't have done so.
		Maybe Elliot Abrams, also convicted of lying as part of Contragate, wouldn't even now be heading the National Security Council's office of democracy, human rights, and international operations (in which position he supported the recent coup in Venezuela).
		And maybe the first Bush wouldn't have said, "The common denominator of their motivation — whether their actions were right or wrong — was patriotism." [source] Maybe if the Republicans couldn't abide liars, they would have pressed the Contragate investigation up the chain of command instead of letting North take the fall.
	home.comcast.net /~jontweet/jotpoliticsbush7.html (1069 words)

	Search. - MontereyCountyWeekly.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Investigating the public's apparent disdain of politics has kept a lot of political and social scientists in work.
		The putative reasons that always make the short list are Richard Nixon and Watergate, Ronald Reagan and Contragate, and Bill Clinton and Zippergate.
		We suspect special interest money and cronyism have done their part, too.
	www.montereycountyweekly.com /articles/6000/print (306 words)

	McKinney - News Briefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Other experts will speak to the flaws in the 9/11 Commission’s process, including conflicts of interest, lack of transparency, investigative rigor and public input, and the many whistleblowers ignored by the Commission.
		Another panel will place 9/11 into historical perspective and looka t the flawed assumptions that misled the Commission’s work, including the politics of illegal drugs, oil investments, covert operations and terrorism, as well as past covert operations like Contragate and the rise of the neo-conservatives and their agenda.
		The last half of the day will be a critical examination by experts of the Commission’s recommendations concerning domestic and foreign policy and intelligence reforms, suggesting other alternatives and policies that could lead to real security and preserve civil liberties and democracy.
	www.house.gov /mckinney/news/pr050722.htm (532 words)

	Peter Dale Scott: Bibliography
		D.112 "Irangate or Contragate -- Which Is the Bigger Scandal?" Article for Pacific News Service (December 29, 1986).
		D.116 "The 'Secret Team' Behind Contragate and Its Past Scandals." Article for Pacific News Service (January 27, 1987).
		D.118 "Contragate and the CIA's 'Off Loaded' Operations." Article for Pacific News Service (January 28, 1987).
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~pdscott/bib4.html (3271 words)

	Letting the real scandals go by
		Yet when the Democratic-controlled Congress convened hearings on the scandal, Senator Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) announced, "We must, all of us, help the president restore his credibility in foreign affairs." After all, the Democrats wanted to show that they were as committed to fighting "communism" in Nicaragua.
		So the hearings proceeded to reveal details of the Contragate conspiracy, but never got close to nailing its key players (like Reagan and Vice President George Bush).
		The hearings never challenged the Cold War rationale for all the lying and deception.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-1/396/396_09_RealScandals.shtml (578 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In a brief telephone interview, Moore described this first installment as "just a teaser" of things to come.
		If any of this stuff is even partially true, then you can forget ContraGate, TailGate and HeavensGate.
		The Cosmic Watergate is about to burst full force onto the front page.
	www.textfiles.com /ufo/UFOBBS/1000/1878.ufo (310 words)

	Toward Freedom - Laura Flanders: Anti-War Radio Journalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Flanders broke into the world of U.S. radio journalism at Pacifica's WBAI in early 1987.
		She began working with Dennis Bernstein and Robert Knight, the producers of the nationally-distributed radio news show, Contragate, which later changed its name to Undercurrents.
		In her 1991 interview with Downtown magazine, Flanders recalled the history of the Contragate/Undercurrents alternative radio news show: "Contragate was the original program out of which Undercurrents developed.
	towardfreedom.com /home/content/view/639 (1305 words)

	Revista Envío - Costa Rican Follies
		Hull was arrested in Costa Rica on charges of drug trafficking and violation of that country's neutrality.
		George Morales, a pilot now serving time in Florida on drug trafficking charges, testified to the US Senate during Contragate hearings that he ran flights into Costa Rica with arms for the contras and returned with cocaine to Florida, using Hull's ranch to unload.
		Hull has also been linked by witnesses to the 1985 La Penca bombing, which killed several journalists and wounded ex-contra leader Edén Pastora in an apparent attempt to pin blame on Managua and justify US intervention in Nicaragua.
	www.envio.org.ni /articulo/2689 (1108 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Feeling Good, Doing Bad
		Michael Kinsley '72, in The New Republic, manages to summon up the courage to tell fellow liberals to get a guilt-free chuckle out of the whole sordid affair.
		In Europe, after a scandal of the proportions of Contragate, Presidential advisers would form a queue out the door and Reagan himself would be strongly considering following suit.
		Yet this crisis, a quintessential political scandal complete with upstart underlings and clued-out Cabinet members has somehow been successfully extricated from the realm of politics.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=229037 (697 words)

	A bibliography complied by Chris Hager of the Boston Contragate Action Team) on the U.S. i
		A bibliography complied by Chris Hager of the Boston Contragate Action Team) on the U.S. i
		A bibliography complied by Chris Hager of the Boston Contragate Action Team) on the U.S. imperialist role in world affairs.
		[The Contragate Action Team of Boston is a group of ordinary citizens who teamed up in 1987 to support the Christic Institute in its Miami suit against 29 alleged Contragate figures, and to educate themselves and the public about the Contragate scandal.
	www.skepticfiles.org /socialis/covertbi.htm (2967 words)

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		Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Post reporters who broke the Watergate story, had promised not to reveal the identity of their source until his death.
		Over the past three decades numerous presidential scandals have been "gated." Contragate, Travelgate, Monicagate - yet none had the magnitude of Watergate.
		Younger Americans perhaps cannot imagine the power of the original Washington Post articles.
	www.bergen.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk0MDAmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY3MDIyODcmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkxNA== (562 words)

	Subject CONTRAGATE - A REVIEW LAWSUIT REVEALS DEPTH OF IRANCONTRA CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS +q
		Subject CONTRAGATE - A REVIEW LAWSUIT REVEALS DEPTH OF IRANCONTRA CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS +q
		Subject: CONTRAGATE - A REVIEW ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAWSUIT REVEALS DEPTH OF IRAN/CONTRA CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS * * * [NY Transfer Editor's note: Former President Jimmy Carter has called for a special prosecutor to investigate the Iran/hostage/arms/drugs/Contra scandle.
		I thought it would be useful to post some historical background information relevant to the issue.
	www.skepticfiles.org /socialis/contrarv.htm (1280 words)

	NSA/FBI Spying and the War on Our Rights
		In addition to spying on specific conversations, NSA technicians have been combing though large volumes of telephone and Internet traffic in what some officials describe as a large “data mining” operation.
		These operations hark back to the Total Information Awareness project, the Big Brother brainchild of convicted Contragate criminal Admiral John Poindexter.
		Nevertheless, the Defense Department continued funding its development.
	www.icl-fi.org /english/wv/861/nsa.html (2188 words)

	Censored News: Oliver North & Co. Banned from Costa Rica
		Put these three into a single scandal and it spells Front Page News, right?
		What it spells is C-E-N-S-O-R-S-H-I-P. In July, North and other major contragate figures were barred from Costa Rica.
		The order was issued by none other than Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=1194 (674 words)

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