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Aug 2019
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Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Pa...

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As the operation expands it also begins to unravel. Word starts to leak out of the illegal stuff the Reagan administration was up to, Congress and the press investigate and people start to point fingers. Spoiler alert – they all got off scot free. 
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