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This was being monitored by electronic defenses activated by the attack. The incident was sold to the American public as a first strike and resulted in Congress passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The resulting airstrikes against the Nor…
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CIA director under Reagan. He was the architect of the Contra CIA war against the Sandinistas. According to material that came out in a congressional investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, Casey was the mastermind behind obtaining illegal…
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One example, Casey managed to convince the Pentagon to give the Contras $12 million in surplus military equipment when they're not allowed to have it. It violated the law. That's what happens when you have these sheet-dit military officers.…
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that everybody died on except for Eugene Hagenfoss. So they then could not deny the CIA had been at war with the Nicaraguan government, contrary to everything the Congress had did, regardless of the law. In order to get the fast, massive in…