Episode 494: Ollies Big Idea Part 1 of Iran/Contra

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Show Notes Episode 494: Ollies Big Idea

Part 1 of Iran Contra

This week Host Dave Bledsoe tried to implement a plan where the bartender gave him whiskey, he drank it and the tab was paid by a third party which would remain classified. (It did not work.) On the show this week we talk about the time the United States did one crime to pay for another crime, we talk Iran Contra!

Along the way we learn that Dave’s idea of acceptable parenting, isn’t. Then we dive into the history of the National Security Council, fighting the Reds since 1947. (Heroes, everyone!) From there we meet the man who would be at the center of a criminal conspiracy that threatened to take down the Presidency of Ronald Reagan if only Ronald Reagan could remember that he was even President. We follow the money from missile sales to Iran to weapons drops over Nicaraguan jungles. (As conspiracies go, this was one of the dumber ones) until we wind back in Washington DC where everything starts to fall apart.

Our returning Sponsor this week is Second Hand Boom, our guns aren’t new, but they will do. We open with news from Lebanon and close with Lauren O’Connell who is talking about the man.

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Citations Needed:

The primary source for this series in Landslide: The Unmaking of the President 1984-1988

By Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus

https://www.amazon.com/Landslide-President-1984-1988-Jane-Mayer/dp/0395517575

Wikipedia: National Security Council

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Security_Council

Washington's Cowboys

https://web.archive.org/web/20080408194549/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962859,00.html

Saudi Arabia and the Reagan Doctrine

https://merip.org/1988/11/saudi-arabia-and-the-reagan-doctrine/

Adnan Khashoggi, High-Living Saudi Arms Trader, Dies at 81

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/middleeast/adnan-khashoggi-dead-saudi-arms-trader.html?_r=0

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