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October 7, 2008

McCain Sat on Board of Group Linked to Central American Death Squads
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As Republicans continue to talk about Bill Ayers, Mc Cain himself is
coming under new scrutiny for his ties to a group linked to former Nazi
collaborators and right-wing Central American deaths squads. During the
early 1980s, Mc Cain was a board member of the US Council for World
Freedom, which took part in efforts to overthrow Nicaragua’s Sandinista
government. The Council later went on to become a major figure in the
Iran-Contra scandal. The Reagan administration defied a congressional
ban to secretly funnel weapons to the Contras, the US-backed proxy group
organized to violently overthrow the Sandinistas. Mc Cain said he
resigned from the Council’s board in 1984.



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