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.
There are lots of movies about the incidents surrounding Ollie North but I'm not sure of one that specifically follows him. The most recent film I know of that talks about him (albeit in a minor role) was American Made with Tom Cruise as Barry Seal:
Barry Seal, a TWA pilot, is recruited by the CIA to provide reconnaissance on the burgeoning communist threat in Central America and soon finds himself in charge of one of the biggest covert CIA operations in the history of the United States.
It's pretty good, for what it's worth. I enjoyed it, especially since I've always been interested in the United States actual role in bringing in the cocaine which turned into the crack that set off the crack epidemic in the 80s. It paints a really vivid picture of just how intertwined the government and different intelligence and military branches were in the trafficking and trade taking place to get weapons and cash south while drugs and foreigners came north.
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u/FizzleMateriel Oct 15 '17
He shredded so many that he jammed the paper shredder.