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Selects: Iran-Contra Affair: Shady in the 80s, Part 1

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Aug 8, 202645:59Society & Culture

When Ronald Reagan was president, America got involved in some deeply shady stuff, not the least of which was the Iran-Contra scandal – a convoluted operation that managed to combine an illegal covert war in Nicara...

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