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Article: DEA Agents Paid From Swiss Account to Search for Hostages, Secord Says
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- The Washington Post
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- May 6, 1987
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Drug Enforcement Administration agents received cash payments
from a Swiss bank account during a White House-directed effort to
find U.S. hostages in Lebanon, a key witness in the Iran-contra
affair testified yesterday.
Retired Air Force major general Richard V. Secord, who ran a
secret network supplying weapons for Iran and the contras, told the
Iran-contra committees that the cash expense payments were given to
Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, then of the National Security Council
staff, or were picked up in Europe by the DEA agents.
"There were expense payments made, and we haven't yet determined
the exact amount of these payments, made to U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency {sic} agents who were ...