---
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
  - Person
  - IranContra
  - Israel
summary: "Secretary to Robert McFarlane at the NSC and mother of Fawn Hall who helped expose McFarlane's contacts with Rafi Eitan."
relations:
  - type: relative_of
    with: "[[Fawn Hall]]"
    role: "mother"
    fn: 1
updated: 2026-10-28
---

[[Wilma Hall]] was the secretary to [[Robert McFarlane]] at the [[National Security Council]]. She is also the mother of [[Fawn Hall]], who was [[Oliver North|Oliver North's]] secretary.[^1]

[[Wilma Hall|Hall]] assisted [[William Odom|Gen. William Odom]] in proving that [[Robert McFarlane|McFarlane]] was an [[Israel|Israeli]] mole working for [[Rafael Eitan|Rafi]]. She did this by taping a phone conversation between [[Robert McFarlane|McFarlane]] and [[Rafael Eitan|Eitan]].[^1]

### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).