 Card number 35. John Pointexter. Findings. Nothing to see here, gang. John Pointexter. Card number 35. National Security Advisor. John Pointexter. Vice Admiral John M. Pointexter served as President Reagan's National Security Advisor from December 1985 through November 25, 1986. He was known throughout his Navy career as an officer with a photographic memory who kept his superiors well informed. Pointexter testified that he had made a very deliberate decision not to ask the President about the diversion of missile profits to the Contras in order to provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out. He further stated that Reagan would have approved if he had been asked. The following day, after Reagan announced that he would not have approved, Pointexter explained that that is the whole idea of deniability. Pointexter testified concerning Oliver North Activities, C Card number 13, that I never believed that the Boland Amendment ever applied to the NSC staff. This odd interpretation of the Boland Amendment by which Congress had meant to cut off all military aid to the Contras was supported by Edwin Mies, the President's Legal Advisor, C Card number 33. Pointexter repeatedly lied to Congress about NSC's role in helping the Contras. Like North, Pointexter destroyed piles of documents, including the only copy of the Presidential finding retroactively authorizing missile sales to Iran and characterizing these sales as a straight arms for hostages swap. In 1988, John Pointexter was indicted for defrauding the US government and obstructing justice. John Pointexter.