Smith Richardson Foundation has sunk millions of dollars into the Iran-Contra projects.
Some Smith Richardson grantees, receiving money since the establishment of the
National Security Council's ``private 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 the country. (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-NSCprivate donors'''
apparatus.
March 17, 1983:
Professional assassinations manager Felix I. Rodriguez met with Bush aide Donald P.
Gregg, officially and secretly, at the White House. Gregg then recommended to National
Security Council adviser Robert Bud '' McFarlane a plan for El Salvador-based military attacks on a target area of Central American nations including Nicaragua. Gregg's March 17, 1983 memo to McFarlane said: The attached plan, written in March of last year,
grew out of two experiences: --Anti-Vietcong operations run under my direction in III Corps Vietnam from 1970-1972. These operations [see below], based on ... a small elite force ... produced very favorable results.--Rudy Enders, who is now in charge of what
is left of the para-military capability of the CIA, went to El Salvador in 1981 to do a
survey and develop plans for effective anti-guerrilla operations. He came back and
endorsed the attached plan. (I should add that Enders and Felix Rodriguez, who wrote the
attached plan, both worked for me in Vietnam and carried out the actual operations
outlined above.) This plan encountered opposition and skepticism from the U.S. military....I believe the plan can work based on my experience in Vietnam....''@s7
Three years later, Bush agent Rodriguez would be publicly exposed as the supervisor of
the covert Central American network illegally supplying arms to the Contras; that
exposure of Rodriguez would begin the explosive public phase of the ``Iran-Contra
scandal.'' Rodriguez's uncle had been Cuba's public works minister under Fulgencio
Batista, and his family fled Castro's 1959 revolution. Felix Rodriguez joined the CIA, and
was posted to the CIA's notorious Miami Station in the early 1960s. The Ted Shackley-E.
Howard Hunt organization there, assisted by Meyer Lansky's and Santos Trafficante's
mafiosi, trained Rodriguez and other Cubans in the arts of murder and sabotage.
Rodriguez and his fellow CIA trainees took part in numerous terror raids against Castro's
Cuba. Felix Rodriguez recounted his early adventures in gun-running under false pretexts
in a ghost-written book, Shadow Warrior:
Just around the time President Kennedy was assassinated, I left for Central America. I spent
almost two years in Nicaragua, running the communications network for [our enterprise].... [O]ur
arms cache was in Costa Rica. The funding for the project came from the CIA, but the money's
origin was hidden through the use of a cover corporation, a company called Maritima BAM,