FIGURES IN IRAN ARMS CASE ARE NAMED IN FLA. LAWSUIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000402950005-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 17, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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es in an arm
s case
are nam '
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gy gen Bradlee Jr. The suit !s bernq brought by ? r ~~~
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~~u~reu ngures in the tran-
contra affair -retired Alr Force
Ma). Gen. Richard Secord and his
Iranian business partner. .gibert
Hakim -arc part of a renegade
teem of former and current gov-
ernment agents who have traf-
ficked In arms and narcotics since
the Vietnam War to support antl-
communlst Insurgency warfare
around the world, according to an
aftidvait filed this week Ina Itttle-
publici~ed federal lawsuit in ~ll-
arru.
man White House,
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?roun to ntn ~ ,. the Secord
aid and to hel facilitate thevs
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sale o arms to Iran the lawsuit
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Th suit charges the defen-
dants with rcsponstbllity for the
bombing In the context of a larger
conspiracy to xll cocaine In the
United States ro rata money to
buy arms and other supplies for
the contra war effort. The lawsuit
exposed detail, of the contra sup-
PIY Pipeline and has taken on new
slignlflcance since news first broke
of the diversion ~i profits from
Iran arms sales : ~ .ie contras.
" ?"""Q? a rroeral Catholic public
Interest l
aw firm and policy center
best known for winning a X10.5
mullon Ilbel verdict for the family
of Karen Silkwood. the nuclear
worker allegedly contaminated
while handling plutonium at the
Ketr Mc(',ee Corp.
Christlc lawyers say they In-
tend to bring evidence they have
uncovered to the attention of the
independent counsel to be ap-
pointed in the Iran-contra affair.
Aanong those named In the law-
suit bpldq $~oro and Hakim are
Theodore Shacltley, former deputy
director of the CIA In charge of co-
Thom a Cllnd? reprcd Ma teary'
John Stnglaub, chairman JofGche
World Antl-Communist L
eague
a.nd active in assisting the con-
teas: Rafael gulntero, a Cuban ex-
ikand CIA contract employer dur-
ing the aborted gay of P1gs Inva-
sion: ?John Hull, an American
businessman who owns a ranch
In Costa Rica that allegedly s
erved
as a staging area for CIA-supplied
weapons for the contras: and Rob-
ert Owen, a Virginia businessman
and consultant to the State De-
partment who allegedly served as
North's liaison with the contras.
The defendants have denied
the charges. and at a hearing
Monday In M1am1 on a defense
motion to dismiss the cas
l
e,
aw-
yers for the defenx charactertzed
the charge as nothing more than
"malicious gossip. ~'
Many of the defendants in the
Chnsuc Butt are former associates
of Edwin Wilson, the ex?CIA oper-
ative now serving a length
f
d
y
e
er-
al prison term after his conviction
of shtpping weaponn? to the Lib-
yan leader. Col. Moammar Kha-
dafy, In the 197ps. In his affidavit.
the lead Chnsuc attorney. Daniel
Sheehan. names Wilson as one of
at least 79 witnesses who are sup-
plying the plaintiffs wrth e~i-
dense, particularly against Shack-
ky and Clines. his former associ-
ates !n the agency and to private
business.
work and context- ~., "'c rramr
P-aatora bombin ~n wt~,ch the
P~pntlffs allege that the pr~.at Iv
fltgtnfxd contra supp-y operation
tsrooted Ina "secret team" whose.
core group was Shacklev and
CHnq and which later included
Secord. Wilson. Hakrm and oth-
ers. Sheehan argues that chic
group, distllusloned by what ,t
perceived as the isolatlonrst bent
of Congress and the vidssitudes of
Ameriean democracy, used ,~ri_
I1Qns of dollars In profits generat-
edby narcotics trafficking to wage
sicret, unauthorized terrertst
wars against communist groups
in Cuba. Vtetnam. Laos. Iran.
Chile. Libya and :Ylcaragua.
As deputy chief of the CIA sta-
tion in Laos to !965, Shacklev
and his deputy. Clines. helped
forge an alliance with M1b trrbes-
men and. through air and other
tactical support, helped one Nrn
faction gain a monopoly on opium
trafficking, the suit allegq. In re-
turn for this assistance, the Hzo
leader turned over a percentage of
the drug profits to the CIA.
The suet alleges that the
Shacklev group skimmed nvonev
from this fund and funneled !t to a
secret bank account in Australia
controlled by Shacklev, Clines and
Secord. who had helped ran tie
CIA s secret are war .n Laos from
Imo'"l96g and that perodlcally.
record and C~~nes would carry
surtcases of cash to Australia.
Before the fall of Sargon in
! 975. the Shacklev group also svs-
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tematlcally pilfered a large weap-
ons cache from US stocks in Vlet?
nam and hidden it to Thailand.
according to the affidavit, where it
was later used 1n other "off Itne '
operations. One country where
the group was active, according to
the afflda~tt. was Iran. where Wil-
son. Serord and Hak1m, w?ho rep-
resented US business interests un-
der the shah, were based !n the
late 70s
In 1979. after the overthrow of
the shah and Shackley's and
Clines forced resignation fmm the
CiA because of their dealings with
Wilson, most of the network went
private. though Secord was sttll In
the Air Force as director of Inter-
national programs. 8y 1979. the
suit alie>Zes. Shackley. Clines. WII-
son. Secord and Hakim had cre-
ated a number of corooratlons
and subs;dtaries around the world
to conceal their operations. which
would later Include aid to the con-
trasand selling arms to Iran.
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