Talk:Thomas G. Clines

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Untitled[edit]

The article claims that he was convicted for involvemenent in Iran-Contra, however it states at the end that he was convicted of tax evasion. I am modifing the heading to indicate this.Sephiroth storm (talk) 19:04, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Brill memo and other problems[edit]

The article originally had a section called "The Brill memo" which read:

In 1988, Shirley Brill, a former CIA official who had lived with Clines in 1977, published an affidavit claiming that Clines was involved in illegal activities with Rafael Quintero and a drug dealer living in Miami. Brill claimed that after Clines retired from the CIA in 1978, Clines had partnered with Ted Shackley, Richard Secord and Edwin P. Wilson to gain Pentagon contracts. Brill also argued that she heard Clines, Secord, Quintero and Shackley plotting to frame Wilson. Nonetheless, Wilson, Clines, Secord and Shackley were all working together in the summer of 1984, when Oliver North sought out Secord to seek help in obtaining arms for the "Contras," a group of armed rebels trying to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.^[1]

Brill is not mentioned in Mayer/McManus, this seems to be some thing from Trento's book, heavily cited throughout the article. Clines is mentioned dozens of times in the book, but I don't understand why this section is here or what it is supposed to show. I suspect this is not the only part of the article that it is misattributed, and that at least some of it derives from Spartacus Educational. Rgr09 (talk) 00:12, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus, Landslide: The Unmaking of the President 1984-1988 (Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston, 1988) p. 142."

[1] "Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus, Landslide: The Unmaking of the President 1984-1988 (Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston, 1988) p. 142."

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