 Elliott Abrams. Elliott Abrams. Card number 18. Card number 18. Elliott Abrams. Sholt in the background. Assistant Secretary of State. Elliott Abrams. Card number 18. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs was previously in charge of the Reagan administration's human rights program. In testimony before a congressional committee he implied that support for the Contra war against Nicaragua was part of the administration's human rights policies. Abrams has lied to Congress repeatedly. He misrepresented his role in soliciting a contribution for the Contras from the Sultan of Brunei, C-Card number 17, when the Hassan Fuss flight was shot down C-Card number 29. Abrams testified to a House subcommittee that the U.S. government was not involved in any way and later he helped concoct a story laying the blame on General John Singla C-Card number 7. A few months prior to this he had helped win $20 million in emergency aid to Honduras by greatly exaggerating claims of Nicaraguan incursions into Honduran territory. Abrams actions form a pattern of disinformation that characterizes the Reagan administration as a whole and George Sholtz's State Department in particular. From the beginning the administration lied about its intentions in Nicaragua claiming that his covert actions were intended to cut off arms shipments from Nicaragua to El Salvador when in fact they were creating an invasion force. Abrams went on to lead the administration's highly publicized but unsuccessful drive to remove Panama's drug dealing general Manuel Nicaragua from power. Elliot Abrams