[NewsViewsnolose] Nicaragua: the US covert war/ The Contra Task Force

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Nicaragua: the US covert war/ The Contra Task Force

The White House decision making center for covert operations and
contracting-out strategy lay within a tiny team of select State,
Defense, CIA and NSC officials known as the "208 Committee"
or "Policy Development Group." Oliver North, the organizer of secret
contra supply missions and Iran arms deals, was one of its most
active members. Meeting in the Crisis Management Center in Room 208
of the Old Executive Office Building, surrounded by secure computer
data links to the National Security Agency, this group could plan
secret operations free from the obligation to report to the
intelligence committees of Congress. Its mission was to implement
the Reagan doctrine of fighting Soviet influence throughout the
Third World, wherever possible by supporting indigenous forces.

As one White House memo from 1982 outlined the mission of "Project
Democracy"-the rubric under which the NSC began to undertake foreign
policy initiatives of its own. Contracting-out provided means to
subvert the law and stretch the scope of executive orders. The
Reagan strategy had its roots in the classic intelligence practice
of using proprietaries and "cut-outs" to effect policy while
preserving deniability. [1] ............................................................

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