Boland Amendment event
also: 1982 Bolin Amendment, prohibition sponsored by Edward Bolin, Bowling Amendment, 1982 Boland Amendment, Bolin Amendment, Harkin Amendment
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Edwin Land sponsored
Boland Amendment documented
“Patrick Moynihan from New York. A year later, the leak of an estimate predicting on how long Managua could hold out brought anger to the administration that they were aiming to overthrow the Sandinistas. Congress went so far as to pass a pr…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 44 (46) @ 40:58
Edward Boland founded
Boland Amendment documented
“Instead, Congress passed the first Bolin Amendment, named after Massachusetts Democrat Edward Bolin, who authored it. He was a member of the House Intel Committee, and it was drafted by Bolin. Now, keep in mind, we're in a Republican admini…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 9 @ 12:20
Mentions (27)
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OK, and it says also his death left General Singlub in charge of the Western goals. And General Singlub, again, comes up over and over and over again in Operation Gladio. He is at the heart of everything. And it says with the passage of the…
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But that's when Senglib stepped forward and worked with the vice president, George Bush. So the Boland Amendment was passed saying basically you could not use taxpayer monies to supply weapons to the Contras to fight the legitimate governme…
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No, no. Arrest Ellen Garwood and Joseph Kors was part of the funding of the Western Goals, which is a CIA cutout to aid to work around Congress and the Boland Amendment.…
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With the passage of the 1982 Boland Amendment, the U.S. government was explicitly prohibited from assisting anti-communist contras in Nicaragua. Zenglib took matters into his own hands. Now, remember, the anti-communist contras were basical…
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any CIA contra controversies before the election. The Democrat-controlled Congress succeeded in passing yet another Boland Amendment. Unlike the earlier one, though, this one had teeth. It prohibited the CIA, the Department of Defense, and …
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So in order to conduct what was essentially billed as the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government, Reagan would have had to have signed a finding in order for them to do it, to have any involvement at all. Even after the Boland Amendment, wh…
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who would dearly love to see the CIA scuttled. I happen to be one of those people, too. In his column, he claimed Congress had given the Contras $100 million before the Boland Amendment went into effect and chided Gary Webb for being too yo…
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meaning the Samosans. Harkins called them vicious cutthroat murderers and urged Congress to end any involvement. When Reagan administration heard about Harkins' proposed amendment to the annual budget, Oliver North later wrote, they hit the…
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Instead, Congress passed the first Bolin Amendment, named after Massachusetts Democrat Edward Bolin, who authored it. He was a member of the House Intel Committee, and it was drafted by Bolin. Now, keep in mind, we're in a Republican admini…
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But Harkin's move, making a public issue out of a secret CIA project, had put Boland on the hot seat, supposedly. Another one of those kabuki dances. Boland told Harkin's that Congress had no business passing laws like the one that he was p…
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To keep Harkins quiet and other liberals, Boland agreed to an amendment to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds, quote, for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua. OK, so all they did was say they weren't trying to overthrow …
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It was a fraud designed to make it look like Congress was doing something and didn't do anything. Internal government memos show that the CIA, White House, Defense Department, and the Contra congressional supporters knew that the Contras ha…
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Has anything to do with Hamas or the PLO or anything else. They're just Lebanese that don't want to live in a war zone. So take that for whatever you want. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel. I did take a look at IC Intel Corporation. And tha…
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The democratically controlled House passed the Boland Amendment that forbid covert aid going to the Nicaraguans and to the Contras. So the diversion of military and foreign aid were taking place from Egypt and Israel to Central America, Afr…
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Lawrence Walsh never used violations of the Arms Export Control Act or the Boland Amendment to charge them. And they were hands down guilty of both of them because they were not criminal statutes. And basically they felt wouldn't be the bes…
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Patrick Moynihan from New York. A year later, the leak of an estimate predicting on how long Managua could hold out brought anger to the administration that they were aiming to overthrow the Sandinistas. Congress went so far as to pass a pr…
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This became known as the Boland Amendment, the first one. Supposedly, the CIA recognized this with a cable instructing officers to avoid any of a series of activities that could be prohibited. Casey went to the National Security Advisor, Wi…
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For Congress, the Contra Manual became the last straw. It voted against a fresh demand for money, which the administration contrived to have attached to the Summer Jobs Bill, and then reenacted the Bowling Amendment with stricter rules proh…
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North's Shelby ran out of gas on the highway. He spent hours telephoning for emergency assistance. In the end, North's Project Democracy turned out very much like his Quantico trip. North did not work in isolation. McFarlane, responsible to…
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Because he didn't know too much about what was going on. The episode led to his first appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Fires felt like a cat being thrown into a clothes dryer. Of course, by then, the CIA operation had be…
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even working outside the agency on different aspects of the Contra activity. North formed another such link outside the purview of Fires. Because the Boland Amendment expressively prohibited the CIA assisting the Contra, a channel such as N…
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The Boland Amendment took effect on October 1, 1984, the first day of the new fiscal year. The final contingent of 73 CIA trainers left Honduras. Langley's orders to its station were explicit. Field stations are to cease and desist with act…
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Soon after Boland took effect, Fires rejected North's invitation to a meeting with Calero. Bill Casey, however, continued to march to the beat of his own drum. Casey would not discuss the contra aid with friend Joe Kors, but had no hesitati…
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with circulation of intelligence reports. In any event, Casey and Fires had to be engaged in wishful thinking to believe the Contras were doing well. At best, as we can discern, Casey led Project Democracy. He used North and his field comma…
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though he could not offer trainers. The deal went to Secord. When Singlib complained, North conceded that he had better prices, then went ahead and cut Singlib out of future Contra arms deals. Actions prohibited by the Boland Amendment beca…
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But the Boland Amendment- With our gladio glasses on. Yeah, well, even without it. And I want to harp on this because it's very, very important. In the 1980s, I specifically remember the Boland Amendment. It, during, especially in, because …
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We had special projects in Los Angeles, special projects at the personnel center, usually behind a green door. It's really retarded to call special projects division like someone's not going to know what it is. So it was linked to CIA agent…