[0106-2300] THE IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR – Companion Dossier (PDF)

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On October 5, 1986, an unmarked Fairchild C-123K cargo plane took off from Ilopango Air Base in El Salvador, loaded with seventy AK-47 rifles, crates of fragmentation grenades, and hundreds of thousands of ammunition rounds bound for Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Hours later, an SA-7 surface-to-air missile severed the left wing, sending the aircraft spiraling into the jungle canopy and triggering the collapse of the Reagan administration’s most explosive covert action. The lone survivor, Eugene Hasenfus, carried credentials and contacts that unmasked ‘the Enterprise’—a rogue corporate network of offshore bank accounts, front companies, and air corridors masterminded by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, retired Major General Richard Secord, and arms broker Albert Hakim. This forensic Companion Dossier maps the structural architecture of that illegal weapons pipeline. Follow the Swiss banking arteries of Lake Resources Inc., examine intercepted flight manifests, and inspect the chronological paper trail that circumvented the Boland Amendment. Built for historians, analysts, and intelligence enthusiasts, this dossier reconstructs the covert machinery that secretly financed a war in defiance of federal law.