The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Spencer Oliver.md

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Iran-Contra	Person IranContra Israel	Chief counsel for the House Foreign Relations Committee involved in Iran-Contra hearings, later admitting the hearings were a cover-up.

Spencer Oliver was the chief counsel for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs. He was involved in the Iran-Contra Affair hearings. In 1991, he discussed the events of 1987 with Ari Ben-Menashe, admitting that the Democrats knew the witnesses were lying and that the hearings were a cover-up to avoid impeaching the president.¹

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1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩︎