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Article: The pro-American activities committee. (Iran-Contra arms sales)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 3, 1987
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The Pro-American Activities Committee
IN THE BAD old days, such congressional committeesas the House Committee on Un-American Activities conducted investigations on Communist subversion, plotting, and espionage. The current Iran-Contra hearings have spun the coin around. Congress is not interested in the vast network of Ben Linders building Communism in Central America, some forty thousand Americans having made the pilgrimage to Nicaragua in the last five years. The Communist regime there has the support not only of Havana and Moscow but also of the officials of the mainline American churches, of an established academic network, of much of the media, and, now, ...