Washington: Oliver North's Paper Chase

Oliver North's Paper Chase

In an otherwise undistinguished office building at 1025 Connecticut Avenue, an ordinary suite has been packed with highly classified documents and "tempest- tested" computers that give off no electronic emanations that spies could pick up. A new hush-hush CIA facility? No, just a room in which lawyers for Oliver North and his fellow defendants can examine Government documents that they might need during the forthcoming Iran-contra conspiracy trial.

The four defendants -- North, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord and Businessman ! Albert Hakim -- are demanding to see 300,000 pages of classified documents....

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