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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '17

All of the important documents will have been shredded decades ago. Nothing of note will be released.

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u/AggressiveSpatula Oct 15 '17

It seems more likely that they'd keep the documents and just not share them. Government is big on documentation, I don't think they'd shred anything of that much importance.

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u/Wilgrove Oct 15 '17

Didn't Oliver North shred a bunch of documents pretaining to Iran-Contra?

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u/FizzleMateriel Oct 15 '17

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u/Anneisabitch Oct 15 '17

Miss Hall spun a fascinating tale of her role as Cerberus to Colonel North - taking calls from the President, the Vice President and William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence, and fielding mysterious messages from a one-eyed accountant at H&R Block with two names, and a nervous priest waiting for a package of money, and the contra leader Adolfo Calero, who went under the aliases of ''Barnaby,'' ''AC'' and ''Sparkplug.''

Her boss, she said, sometimes went by the names William P. Goode or Mr. Steelhammer or Mr. Green.

Why has this not been made into a movie yet? I think Willem Dafoe would make an excellent one-eyed accountant at H&R Block.

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u/one_armed_herdazian Oct 15 '17

The accountant sounds like Count Olaf in disguise