December 21, 1982:
The first Boland Amendment '' became law: None of the funds provided in this Act [theDefense Appropriations Bill] may be used by the Central Intelligence Agency or the Department of (^)
Defense to furnish military equipment, military training or advice, or other support for military
activities, to any group or individual ... for the purpose of overthrowing the government of
Nicaragua. '' Boland I, '' as it was called, remained in effect until Oct. 3, 1984, when it was superseded by a stronger prohibition knowFebruary 1983: n as Boland II. ''@s4
Fawn Hall joined Oliver North as his assistant. Ms. Hall reported that she worked with North on the
development of a secret Crisis Management Center. '' Lt. Colonel North, an employee of the National Security Council, is seen here managing a new structure within the Bush-directed SSG/CPPG arrangements of 1981- 82.@sMarch 3, 1983: 5 In the spring of 1983, the National Security Council established an office of Public Diplomacy ''
to propagandize in favor of and run cover for the Iran-Contra operations, and to coordinate
published attacks on opponents of the program. Former CIA Director of Propaganda Walter
Raymond was put in charge of the effort. The unit was to work with domestic and internationalnews media, as well as private foundations. The Bush family-affiliated Smith Richardson
Foundation was part of a National Security Council private donors' steering committee '' charged with coordinating this propaganda effort. A March 3, 1983 memorandum from Walter Raymond to then-NSC Director William Clark, provided details of the program:
As you will remember you and I briefly mentioned to the President when we briefed him on theN[ational] S[ecurity] D[ecision] D[irective] on public diplomacy that we would like to get together (^)
with some potential donors at a later date....
To accomplish these objectives Charlie [United States Information Agency Director Charles Z. Wick] has had two lengthy meetings with a group of pegroup had included principally program directors rather than funders. The group wople representing the private sector. Thisas largely pulled (^) together by Frank Barnett, Dan McMichael (Dick [Richard Mellon] Scaife's man), Mike Joyce (Olin Foundation), Les Lenkowsky (Smith Richardson Foundation) plus Leonard Sussman and Leo Cherne of Freedom House. A number of others including Roy Godson have also participated. '' [Everything above in parentheses is in the original].@s6 Elsewhere, Raymond described Cherne and Godson as the coordinators of this group. Frank Barnett was the director of the Bush family's National Strategy Information Center, for which Godson was the Washington, D.C. director. Barnett had been the project director of the Smith Richardson Foundation prior to being assigned to that post. The Smith Richardson Foundation has sunkmillions of dollars into the Iran-Contra projects. Some Smith Richardson grantees, receiving money (^) since the establishment of the National Security Council'sprivate steering committee'' (according
to the foundation's annual reports) include the following:
Dennis King, to write the book "Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism", used as the
basis for arguments against LaRouche and his associates by federal and state prosecutors around thecountry. (See the LaRouche section at the end of this chapter.)
Freedom House. This was formed by Leo Cherne, business partner of CIA Director William Casey.
Cherne oversaw Walter Raymond's private donor's committee.'' National Strategy Information Center, founded in 1962 by Casey, Cherne and the Bush family (see Chapter 4). Thus, when an item appeared in a daily newspaper, supporting the Contras, or attacking their opponents--calling themextremists,'' etc.--it is likely to have been planted by the U.S.
government, by the George Bush-NSC ``private donors''' apparatus.
March 17, 1983: