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Article: Iran-Contra Probes Find Big `Overlap';Scores of Persons, Firms Subpoenaed
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- The Washington Post
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- February 5, 1987
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The House select committee investigating the Iran-contra affair
and independent counsel Lawrence E. Walsh have started taking
depositions from and issuing subpoenas for documents to scores of
individuals and corporations involved, sources said yesterday.
The initial returns, according to one congressional source, show
"an overlap" between the Iran and Nicaraguan rebel support operations
"beyond what we expected."
Many of those subpoenaed and interviewed in the first phase of
the inquiries by the House investigators and special prosecutor are
companies and individuals that have been publicly associated with
activities of retired Air Force major general Richard V. Secord, who
has been ...