"Ollie North was very close to Jack Abramoff and the CFA"

[Clara T]

Citizens for America

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Lehrman and Hume were able to attract major rightwing funders such as Joseph Coors and Ivan Boesky. Many backers of CFA come from the Fortune 500, including the heads of such corporations as Atlantic-Richfield, Shell Oil, Chase Manhattan, Dr. Pepper, W. R. Grace, Amway, and Northrup. (16) Ultra rightwing Texas billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, Texas financier T. Boone Pickens, and Reagan "kitchen cabinet" members Holmes Tuttle and Earle Jorgensen have also contributed to CFA. (19) The J. E. and L. E. Mabee Fdn donated $20,000 in 1985, and in 1986 the Starr Fdn donated $50,000. (9,10) CFA's 1986 budget was $1. 8 million. (16)

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CFA produced slick anticommunist publications targeting the Sandinista government which were distributed to interested audiences along with materials of the State Department, the Defense Department, Heritage Foundation, and the Senate Republican Policy Committee. The group also sponsored a major public relations campaign for the Nicaraguan contras, including a 1985 national tour of contra leaders to 200 congressional districts and a barrage of pro-contra aid radio and newspaper ads in 1986. (16,23) CFA worked closely with Oliver North in North's contra supply efforts."Abramoff and CFA were assigned responsibility for organizing briefings by contra speakers, telephone-trees 'to targeted congressional offices encouraging them to vote for aid to the freedom fighters in Nicaragua'." (Interior quotes are from a declassified "NSC Intelligence Document," Exhibit OLN-217). (24)

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The Washington Post reported that Oliver North has been very close to Jack Abramoff and the CFA. North helped CFA select the contra leaders for the 1985 speaking tour. (25)

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Principals:

Donald Devine, chairman in 1990. (1) Lewis E. Lehrman, co-founder and president. (2) Dr. Robert H. Krieble, Louisiana State Representative Louis "Woody" Jenkins, and Jack Hume were also co-founders of Citizens for America. (16,25) Marc L. Holtzman was executive director until 1984 when he was replaced by Jack Abramoff. (2,25) Andres Bougolubov is either the current or former executive director. (2)

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/cfa.php#P2519_576247

Lewis E. Lehrman

Project for the New American Century: Board of Directors
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Co-Chairman

Institutional Affiliations
Citizens for America: Co-Founder and President (5)
American Enterprise Institute: Board of Trustees (2)
Morgan Library: Board of Trustees (2)
Manhattan Institute: Board of Trustees (2)
Heritage Foundation: Board of Trustees (2)
Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College: Co-Founder (3)
Yale University Council: Chairman, Committee on Humanities (2)
Conservative Network (5)
Council for National Policy (6)
Democratic International: Organizer of insurgent leaders in Angola, 1985 (7)
Republican and Conservative Party: Candidate for New York Governor, 1982 (1)


Highlights & Quotes

Lehrman is a former drugstore executive turned conservative economic theorist turned Heritage Foundation big wig. He helped found Citizens for America, which was formed in 1983 by various conservative heavy hitters such as Holly Coors (the wife of Joseph Coors) to promote conservative causes. According to GroupWatch, CFA “worked closely with Oliver North in North's Contra supply efforts,” organizing briefings by Contra speakers that targeted congressional offices and encouraged congressional members to vote Contra aid. CFA was also the principal U.S. sponsor for a 1985 meeting of anticommunist ‘freedom fighters’ held in Angola. This conference produced at least three memoranda -- one from speechwriter Dana Rohrabacher to White House communications director Patrick Buchanan, one from Buchanan to National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, and one from National Security Council staffer Walter Raymond to McFarlane. The memos discussed whether the president should send a personal message to the Angola meeting via Lehrman and whether Rohrabacher should attend the meeting. The conference was considered instrumental in pressuring the Reagan administration to authorize a $15 million aid package for UNITA in 1986. The conference also exerted pressure on the U.S. Congress and public to support the Nicaraguan Contras and the guerrillas in Afghanistan.” (5)

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1263

[fooj]

1. No! It can't be true!

:grr:

[InsultComicDog]

5. Surprise, surprise, surprise

[SPKrazy]

2. See How Deep The Rabbit Hole goes?

Wayyyyyy Deeeeep.

Barry Seal Deep

Operation paperclip deep?

Mohammed Atta deep?


This whole thing has the potential to blow the shit out everything we know as truth, and turn the world upside down.

[asjr]

3. This ultra right-wingers have been running

our country far longer than I had previously thought. They have installed their very own "president for life."

[Skink]

4. coming soon the shadow government revealed.

[Clara T]

6. Hope so but the media is good at what it does

The aim, therefore, is to stifle the discussion and silence the adversaries, an aim that is much more ideological than you would care to think. It also explains perfectly, for example, why the whole of the MSM press only the often say the same things. The rule is that the people controlling the media have to be totally reliable: they don’t even have to be told what to say. They already know it by heart. They have already internalised the rules of the game. Being reliable is something that requires lengthy training and considerable single-mindedness. On every level of the information hierarchy you have to prove that you have a total disregard for the truth, a complete readiness to deceive and an absolutely impenetrable cynicism. This, as a rule, is the only way of getting up to the next level."

[Loonman]

7. Islamic Jihad's buddy: Ollie?

Say it ain't so!