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That time when Olly North slipped a few mil into a Swiss bank account. "Leahy...said: ''I've said all along that while our Government may not have been clearly breaking the law, with regard to the contras, they were doing a lot with a wink and a nod."
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#NoQuidProQuo! "In briefing reporters aboard Mr. Shultz's plane last June (1986), an aide said that the Sultan had asked nothing of the United States and Mr. Shultz had asked nothing of him."
"Funding from .. Brunei, was botched when North's secretary, Fawn Hall, transposed the numbers of North's Swiss bank account number. A Swiss businessman, suddenly $10 million richer, alerted the authorities of the mistake. The money was eventually returned with interest." #The80s 
