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involved, a damage control operation that has concentrated on liquidating those
individuals whose testimony might prove to be most damning to the leading personalities
of these networks. The death of Don Aronow occurred within the time frame of this
general process of amputation and cauterization of the Iran-contra and related networks.
Many aspects of Aronow's life suggest that his assassination may have been a product of
the same "damage control" logic.

NOTES:

1. For Bush's "war on drugs", see Jack Anderson and Dale Van Atta, "How Bush Commanded the War on
   Drugs," Washington Post, June 20, 1988; Lawrence Lifschultz, "Bush, Drugs and Pakistan: Inside the
   Kingdom of Heroin," The Nation, November 14, 1988; "Drug Czars We Have Known," The Nation,
   February 27, 1989; and Robert A. Pastor and Jorge Castaneda, Limits to Friendship: The United States and
   Mexico (New York, 1988), p. 271.


2. "Bush, Drugs, and Pakistan," The Nation, November 14, 1988.


3. See the cover of Newsweek, October 19, 1987 "Fighting the 'Wimp Factor,'" which portrays Bush at the
   controls of Fidelity. A similar photo appears facing p. 223 in George Bush and Vic Gold, Looking Forward
   (New York, 1987).


4. See Thomas Burdick and Charlene Mitchell, Blue Thunder (New York, 1990), p. 229. The following
   account of the relations between Bush and Aronow relies upon this remarkable study.


5. Blue Thunder, p. 182.


6. Blue Thunder, p. 235.


7. Blue Thunder, p. 18.


8. Blue Thunder, p. 34.


9. Blue Thunder, p. 71.


10. Blue Thunder, p. 95.


11. Blue Thunder, p. 103.


12. Blue Thunder, pp. 326-327.


13. Blue Thunder, pp. 351, 357.