In the first installment of MFFI’s Government Cover-Ups series, grab your New Coke and Trapper Keeper for a trip back to the 1980s to uncover the truth behind one of the wildest political scandals in American history: the Iran-Contra affair. It’s a saga of guns, drugs, hostages, and lies that shook the White House to its core.
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In this episode:
- Ronald Wilson Reagan, the Actor
- The Hollywood Blacklist
- President of the Screen Actor’s Guild
- Ronald W. Reagan, Informant
- Governor Regan
- Candidate Regan
- President Regan
- Nicaragua in the ‘80s
- The Sandinistas
- Fall of the Samosa Dictatorship
- The Contras (Counterrevolutionaries)
- Democrats Sweep Congress
- The Boland Amendments
- “The Enterprise”
- Richard Secord
- Oliver North
- The Iran Iraq War
- Operation Eagle Claw
- Israel, Intermediary
- Manucher Ghorbanifar, Sneaky Snake
- National Security Adviser Robert MacFarlane
- Shipments Commence
- Hostage Release
- John Poindexter
- The Scheme Unravels
- Eugene Hasenfus, Lucky Pervert
- Mehdi Hashemi
- Fawn Hall and the Shredding Party
- Cleaning House and the Tower Commission
- Congressional Inquiry
- Oliver North, Celebrity Traitor
- Repercussions
- George Bush
- The Cover-Up Complete
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