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UTUSN

(75,762 posts)
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 01:57 PM Sep 9

Blast from WH shredders past: Oliver NORTH & Fawn HALL marry 40 years later

Workplace teamwork blossoms, RAYGUN was on auto-pilot, Poppy BUSH practiced being out-of-the-loop.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/politics/oliver-north-fawn-hall-iran-contra-marry

Oliver North marries Fawn Hall, his document-shredding secretary at the center of Iran-Contra scandal

.... North, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, was a National Security Council staffer when he gained attention for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. North was part of the twin schemes to sell weapons to Iran and then use proceeds to fund anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.

Hall, North’s secretary, admitted to shredding damning documents related to the controversy. She snuck documents that possibly implicated North’s involvement out of the White House by stuffing them in her clothing and shoes, and the two later overfed a paper shredder to the point of it jamming. ....

But the sales ran afoul of legislation that limited US government assistance to the Contras, an arms embargo against Iran, and Reagan’s previous assurances that the US would not negotiate with terrorists.

North was convicted in 1989 on three felony charges, but the convictions were vacated shortly after. Hall was granted immunity from prosecution. ....

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Submariner

(13,132 posts)
3. This is the original disgrace to the uniform of the United States Marines
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 02:11 PM
Sep 9

in the post-WWII era. Raygun's crack whore gun shipper.

Tanuki

(16,082 posts)
4. Well now she won't have to testify against him
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 02:15 PM
Sep 9

if anything else emerges from the crypt at this late date and for which the statute of limitations hasn't expired.

Jacson6

(1,543 posts)
8. The funny thing is that all of the documents that were shredded were electronically backed up.
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 04:01 PM
Sep 9

So it did them no good.

UTUSN

(75,762 posts)
9. Well, she got immunity and his convictions were vacated, so they got their crooked good out of it.
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 04:13 PM
Sep 9

druidity33

(6,827 posts)
10. Good for them!
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 08:53 PM
Sep 9

Imagine carrying a torch that long! My arm would get tired! I'm exclaiming!

Seriously though... two old codgers tying the knot is always nice to see. Don't care who they are. Means you can still find love, even if it is one you might've already lost once, maybe that makes it sweeter.



valleyrogue

(2,330 posts)
11. Why would she take up with an old fart like that?
Tue Sep 9, 2025, 09:04 PM
Sep 9

I can't think of anything worse than being a caregiver to an old man in my own old age.

Ollie is 81, and Fawn is 65. Both were previously widowed.

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