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Contras
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Negative Trigger
The
administration
hoped
to
use
Using
the
proceeds
of
the
arms
sale
to
fund
Supply
the
Contras
in
Nicaragua
.
Under
the
Boland
Amendment
,
further
funding
of
the
Contras
by
the
government
(
except
for
the
Office
of
the
President
and
the
National
Security
Council
)
had
been
prohibited
Preventing_or_letting
by
Congress
.
The
plan
was
later
complicated
in
late
1985
,
when
Lieutenant
Colonel
Oliver
North
of
the
National
Security
Council
diverted
Removing
a
portion
of
the
proceeds
from
the
Iranian
weapon
sales
to
fund
Supply
the
Contras
,
a
group
of
anti-Sandinista
rebels
,
in
their
insurgency
against
the
socialist
government
of
Nicaragua
.
While
President
Ronald
Reagan
was
a
vocal
supporter
of
the
Contra
cause
,
the
evidence
is
disputed
Quarreling
as
to
whether
he
personally
authorized
Preventing_or_letting
the
diversion
of
funds
to
the
Contras
.
During
the
1980s
,
both
the
FSLN
(
a
leftist
collection
of
political
parties
)
and
the
Contras
(
a
rightist
collection
of
counter-revolutionary
groups
)
received
Receiving
large
amounts
of
aid
Assistance
from
the
Cold
War
Hostile_encounter
superpowers
(
respectively
,
the
Soviet
Union
and
the
United
States
)
.
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