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The Forgotten Marine Corps Veteran Who Exposed the Iran-Contra Affair Dies at 84

On Oct. 5, 1986, a cargo plane running a covert resupply mission to the Nicaraguan Contras was shot down by Sandinista forces. The lone survivor, Vietnam veteran Eugene Hasenfus, promptly told the world he’d been working on a CIA-linked airlift, exposing the secret effort to support the Contras despite a Congressional ban on funding the right-wing rebel group. Related: How shoddy email practices led to the convictions in the Iran-Contra AffairHa…

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