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Clips from The Invisible Pilot (2022) - Chapter Three (S01E01)

"(GUNFIRE)"
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"And for Ronald Reagan, the Contra cause"
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"was the most important front in the Cold War."
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"Today I give you my solemn pledge,"
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"I will not rest until freedom is given a fighting chance"
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"in Nicaragua."
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"-Viva Reagan! -(CROWD APPLAUDS)"
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"LEON NEYFAKH: It's hard for us to kind of put ourselves back"
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"in that mindset now, because it seems so weird"
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"that the United States would care"
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"about these tiny little countries."
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"But the fear at the time was that the Soviet Union was using their influence"
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"in these places, you know, to sort of create a base"
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"for themselves very close to America's back door."
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"RONALD REAGAN: My friends, a communist Nicaragua,"
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"allied with the Soviet Union, is a permanent threat to us all."
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"LEON: Meanwhile, you had this crisis unfolding in the Middle East..."
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"A seventh American today was kidnapped by gunmen"
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"-in Beirut. -...where these hostages"
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"were being held, and the White House's hands"
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"were tied as far as negotiating for their release,"
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"because they weren't supposed to negotiate with terrorists."
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"We cannot reward their grisly deeds."
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"We will not cave in."
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"Word got to folks in the Reagan White House"
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"that there were people in Iran who had influence"
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"over these kidnappers in Lebanon."
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"And these people in Iran wanted something very specific"
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"from the United States in exchange for their help."
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"And that something was weapons, missiles."
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"The extremists are demanding freedom for 17 Muslim prisoners"
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"in Kuwait in exchange for the six Americans"
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"still being held in Lebanon."
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"And they are not willing to wait much longer."
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"And so, they started thinking, "Well, maybe we should give them"
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"what they want and sell them these weapons.""
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"You know, we're not really negotiating with kidnappers."
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"We're not really paying a ransom."
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"We were sending arms. And I sensed"
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"we were trying to get hostages out."
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"But not arms for hostages."
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"But the idea was hatched that the money being generated"
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"by these secret arms sales"
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"could be used to fund the secret war in Nicaragua. And that's the hyphen."
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"It's the convenience of having money you're not supposed to have,"
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"and spending it on something you're not supposed to spend it on."
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"♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪"
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"REPORTER: Sources are also saying"
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"the Senate is ready to issue the first subpoenas in its investigation."
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"REPORTER 2: Including former National Security Council chiefs"
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"Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter,"
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"and NSC operative Oliver North,"
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"as well as CIA director William Casey."
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"LEON: The big question facing investigators was,"
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"how instrumental was Reagan in setting all this in motion?"
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"REPORTER 3: Mr. President, what did you know about money"
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"-going to the Contras? -All I know is"
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"this is just gonna taste wonderful,"
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"and I'm looking forward to tomorrow."
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"REPORTER 4: Vice President Bush, did you know"
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"about the Contra aid or not, sir?"
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"What about all the laws that apparently"
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"have been violated in this? Do you expect someone"
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"to face criminal trial as a result of this?"
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"It seems to me that clearly the law of Congress, it says"
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"that non-lethal, or lethal aid should not be delivered"
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"to the Contras, has been broken."
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"-(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) -♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪"
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"GARY: I just tried to escape in a helicopter,"
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"and I was in the hole, and George was in the hole,"
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"and we were talking back and forth,"
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"how we've been fucked over. Fucking government, CIA, FBI,"
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"whatever. We risked our life and we trusted them."
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"I was told, and George was told, that,"
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"no matter what happens, you guys are covered."
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"No one ever stepped forward to help me at all."
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"And I hollered over to George, said, “George!” He says, “What”""
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"I said, “Let's tell them about the Contras.”"
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"He says, “What do you mean?” I said, “I'll help you get the word out,"
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"and we'll stick it in their ass!”"
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"I got the addresses, and I wrote a standard letter"
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"about what this was about."
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"George and I got the message out to every news agency"
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"in the world. (CHUCKLES)"
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"LEON: Any journalist working in the late 1980s"
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"would have been inspired by Watergate."
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"RICHARD NIXON: No reporter from the Washington Post"
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"is ever to be in the White House,"
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"-is that clear? -RON ZIEGLER: Absolutely."
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"LEON: Watergate created an archetype"
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"of the investigative journalist who can take down the government..."
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"I shall resign the presidency,"
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"-effective at noon tomorrow. -...who could expose"
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"-the President's secrets. -(CROWD APPLAUDS)"
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"REPORTER: There's the President, waving goodbye"
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"as you hear the applause."
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"LEON: Iran-Contra just, like, offered so many threads"
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"for journalists to pull on."
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"REP. LEE HAMILTON: The joint hearings of the House Select Committee"
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"to investigate covert arms transaction with Iran"
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"will come to order."
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"These were very elaborate operations."
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"There was just a sense that there were witnesses"
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"out there who can reveal the inner workings"
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"of the foreign policy apparatus"
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"through whatever orders they were given."
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"And so I think journalists were extremely curious"
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"to find those people."
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"(GAVEL BANGS)"
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"In December ‘85, at the Associated Press,"
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"Bob Parry and I did this story"
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"revealing how the Contras were involved in drug trafficking,"
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"and that some of the proceeds"
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"were being used to finance the war."
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"Some of the people who helped orchestrate this war"
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"were themselves drug traffickers."
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"And so we were asking ourselves, "What was the connection?""
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"After we ran that story, we started getting calls"
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"from lots of people who said, “Oh, I know this, I know that.”"
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"And so we started investigating."
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