IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR

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Term Paper Title	IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR
# of Words	688
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.75

"IRAN CONTRA AFFAIR"

By Ryan J. Travis

     The Iran -Contra scandal, involving the illegal sale of weapons to terrorists in Iran, the funds for which were used to support the right wing Contras in Nicaragua fighting the leftist Sandinista regime, was a gross violation of U.S. and international law by President Ronald Reagan and military personnel within the United States government.
     In 1979 Anastasio Somoza, the dictator of Nicaragua, fled the country and in doing so purloined approximately one half of the nation's wealth.  This event left a void in the nation's leadership that was to be filled with the bloody-handed Sandinista regime, a leftist organization boasting a Marxist philosophy and totalitarian administrative policies (Goldstein et al, 107).  President Carter sent 175 million in funds to support the fledgling Latin American government (Goldstein et al,107).
     In 1980, the Sandinista government begins a suppression of free press and series of attacks on religious organizations, this coincides with Sandinista support of neighboring communist factions fighting for control of their own Latin American republics.  This spurned President Carter to shut off all aid flowing to the now totalitarian Nicaraguan institution (Goldstein et al ,107).  President Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency of the U.S. in 1981, this event paralleled the formation of a right-wing internal resistance movement known as the Contras.  Reagan welcomed this internal opposition group with open arms (Goldstien et al ,107).
     In 1982 Reagan authorized continuing CIA aid to the Contra rebels (Goldstein et al,107), this violated the Boland Amendment passed in 1984 by Congress stating that such aid to Nicaraguan resistance groups was unlawful. CIA aid continued after the passing of the law (Encarta).  In 1983 Senator Boland of Massachusetts accused Reagan of violating neutrality laws. Reagan denied these weighty allegations stating that he was merely adhering to George F. Kennan's policy of containment by stopping the spread of communism into other Latin American countries and not directly attacking an already existing Communist entity. (Goldstein et al, 108).  U.S. me...

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