Government Coverups: The Iran-Contra Affair

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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