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Anatomy of a Fraud (part 1)

Anatomy of a Fraud (part 1)

How real estate and bank fraud helped finance the secret wars of the 1980s

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Aug 09, 2024
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How do you finance a clandestine war free from the oversight of Congress? The 1980s saw the American intelligence community deployed exceedingly sophisticated measures to do this. The Iran-Contra affair is the key example: why not sell missiles, fight jet and tank parts and a host of other war materiel to Iran, a country then locked into a …

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