About him, Walsh wrote: “We had lawyers and FBI agents traveling to Europe to trace Secord’s arms purchases through Thomas Clines, a seasoned hard-boiled former CIA agents who had known Secord in Vietnam and done business with him later. We identified nine arms shipments sold through Clines to the Contras. In Denmark, we found the evidence of Secord’s purchase of a small cargo ship he used for carrying arms to the Contras and for other missions requested by North.” (p. 63)

Instead of investigating this, particularly the use apparently of the Eksund to assist the Provisional IRA, and other missions that Clines had carried out – what associate counsel of Walsh’s investigation Guy Miller Struve recommended – Walsh settled for the financial coverup I have written about, and essentially lost Struve’s services in doing so.

Struve later explained: “You will regret this day,” and so Walsh did. (See p. 130ff.)

As for Robert Gates performance as the CIA Deputy Director of Operations which assassinated Barschel, note that Walsh thought that he lied about what he knew, and did during Iran-Contra, but Walsh declined to prosecute him because it was just Gates’ word against those of operatives Charles Allen and Richard Kerr. (pp. 281-82) – what led Gates not to seek being DCI after the departure of William Casey.

It all seems most relevant when Gates, now SoD, denies that the Pentagon is trying to assassinate Muhammar Qaddafi!