Oliver North
Where each worldview places it
The "star" and scapegoat of Iran-Contra who "emerged a hero": an operative of the Bush-run drugs-for-arms network who set up the Contra weapons pipeline through Arkansas[1].
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- early 1980s (Little Rock meetings)[2]
- Key events
- Vietnam era: works with Theodore Shackley on Operation Phoenix[3]
- early 1980s: holds meetings at Little Rock to set up the illegal Contra weapons pipeline, with Barry Seal as a main operative[2]
- supplies arms to Iran via Israel for the hostages, using Terry Waite without his knowledge[3]
- travels with George Bush to El Salvador[3]
- spends three years with Vincent Cannistraro on the anti-Gaddafi campaign that led to the bombing of Tripoli[4]
- Members / notable people
- Author's claims · 4
- 01Cannistraro's campaign portrayed Colonel Gaddafi as a monster, though Icke says this "hatred" is a front for CIA terrorist training in Libya; The Biggest Secret calls Gaddafi a "Brotherhood frontman"[5].
- 02Iran-Contra "brought Oliver North to world public attention"[6]; he was helped discreetly by the Swiss Secret Service[3].
- 03The Arkansas pipeline tied the Reagan-Bush Iran-Contra network to Clinton's Arkansas through North and Terry Reed[2].
- 04He is "the 'hero'... of the Iran-Contra drugs-for-arms scandal"[7].