Richard Secord
- There is also an unrelated school in Edmonton, Canada named the Ecole Richard Secord school.
Major General Richard V. Secord, Retired, was a United States Air Force officer convicted for his involvement with the Iran-Contra scandal. He was President of Stanford Technology Trading Group Intl., also known as the "Enterprise", a company involved with arms sales to Iran during the Reagan presidency.
Iran-Contra
Richard Secord has been described as having represented U.S. arms merchants before the Shah of Iran, as it is alleged that he acted as the chief advisor to the commander in chief of the Iranian air force and managed all U.S. Air Force programs to Iran as well as some Army and Navy assistance programs.
Secord filed a libel case against Leslie Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn, Morgan Entrekin, Atlantic Monthly Press, and Little, Brown and Company, Inc. for publishing a book in 1987 entitled Out of Control: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Secret War in Nicaragua, the Illegal Pipeline, and the Contra Drug Connection.
Trial
On March 16, 1988, Secord was indicted on six felony charges.
On May 11, 1989, Secord received a second indictment on nine counts of impeding and obstructing the Congress Select Iran Contra Committees. Secord was scheduled to stand trial on 12 charges.
On November 8, 1989, Richard Secord pled guilty to one felony count of false statements to Congress, and on January 24, 1990, he was sentenced to two years probation.
See also
Sources
- Iran-Contra Connection, J. Marshall, P. Scott and J. Hunter
External Links
Official U.S. Air Force Biography (af.mil)
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