Iran-Contra Hearings Day 1 Part 16: Richard Secord Testimony Part 1 (1987)

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Major General Richard V. Secord, Retired, was a United States Air Force officer convicted for his involvement with the Iran-Contra scandal. He was born in LaRue, Ohio in 1932. He graduated from West Point in 1955 and was then commissioned in the USAF. He was President of Stanford Technology Trading Group Intl., also known as the "Enterprise", a company involved with arms sales to Iran during the Reagan presidency.

Since 2002, retired General Secord has held the position of CEO and Chairman of the Board at Computerized Thermal Imaging.

Richard Secord was involved in the Secret War in Laos during the Second Indochina War. At the time he was stationed in Thailand as deputy air wing commander and provided Hmong military leader, and Royal Lao Army Major General, Vang Pao with tactical air support. Ron Rickenbach, a former USAID official who served at the time, made an unsubstantiated allegation that Vang Pao occasionally used these aircraft to transport opium.

Richard Secord has been described as having represented U.S. arms merchants before the Shah of Iran, as it is alleged that he acted as the chief advisor to the commander in chief of the Iranian air force and managed all U.S. Air Force programs to Iran as well as some Army and Navy assistance programs.

Secord filed a libel case against Leslie Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn, Morgan Entrekin, Atlantic Monthly Press, and Little, Brown and Company, Inc. for publishing a book in 1987 entitled Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection. The court ordered summary judgment on behalf of the defendant.

On March 16, 1988, Secord was indicted on six felony charges.

On May 11, 1989, Secord received a second indictment on nine counts of impeding and obstructing the Congress Select Iran Contra Committees. Secord was scheduled to stand trial on 12 charges.

On November 8, 1989, Richard Secord pled guilty to one felony count of false statements to Congress, and on January 24, 1990, he was sentenced to two years probation.

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[girjaye]

let us never forget what our country gets away with and how many people have become scapegoats of the higher government... their is always a 'fall guy'... Oliver North should not have been in the position he was forced into... this guy here is talking out of the side of his neck.. when will people be so courageous to accept responsibility for ALL that they do?

[PNACATTACKdotCOM]

I read today interview where Frank Morrow' was interviewed by some other guy. I saw Frank Morrow's picture at age 76 (2009) at hospital. He got some plastic replacement parts related to his knee :)

He is a great man like his Alternative View buddy.

PS: I have all ALTERNATIVE VIEWs iNTEVIEWS :)

Totally 25 GB - I downloaded them last year from INTERNET ARCHIVE :)