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Reagan cuts off all aid to the FSLN indefinately. Note: July 1979 Sandinistas take over in Nicaragua. Carter sends $ 99 million in aid to FSLN so that it would become pro-US.
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Equipment, and money were also given to put pressure on the regime.
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The first Boland Amendment in passed , which barrs the "the use of funds ' for the purpose of 'overthrowing the government in Nicaragua and Honduras.
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Oliver North knew of the plan and recommended that the president sign off on it
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The intelligence committee was barely informed. There was a great uproar and backlash against aid to the contras
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No funds available to CIA or other agencies for support of any military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua. Boland states that U.S. Support for the contras gives the FSLN an excuse to be repressive and undemocratic.
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The CIA can provide training that does not 'amount to the participation in the planning for the execution of military or paramilitary operations'
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Daniel Ortega
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At this point Congress were tired of the Sandinistas
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Iran paid $3.6 million and $2 million was diverted to the Contras
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July 7-10 and July 13-14
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to conspiracy to defraud the United States
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Oliver North, Pointdexter, Richard Secord and Albert Hakim on conspiracy to deraud the United States
