Oliver North Questioned Rex 84 Exposed During Iran Contra — Transcript
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- 0:00was elected to the presidency he
- 0:02installed leis Gea as head of FEMA the
- 0:05Federal Emergency Management
- 0:08agency G Freda was an old cold warrior
- 0:12from Reagan's California days whose
- 0:14specialty was suppression of unrest and
- 0:17dissent gifa North and George Bush began
- 0:21to turn FEMA into an instrument of
- 0:24domestic anti-terrorism you're dealing
- 0:27with a group of people in the Reagan
- 0:28Administration who equated
- 0:30political descent with treason and who
- 0:32cannot differentiate between emergency
- 0:35procedures which I think everyone agrees
- 0:37are necessary and suppressing political
- 0:40descent and with North and point Dexter
- 0:43and Casey you had a group of people who
- 0:46saw Americans who disagree with him as
- 0:48the enemy Colonel North in your work at
- 0:51the
- 0:52NSC were you not assigned at one time to
- 0:55work on plans for the continuity of
- 0:57government in the event of a major
- 0:59disaster
- 1:00Mr
- 1:02[Music]
- 1:03chairman I believe that question touches
- 1:06upon a highly sensitive and classified
- 1:09area so may I request
- 1:12that you not touch upon that
- 1:15sir I was particularly concerned Mr
- 1:19chairman
- 1:20because I read in Miami papers and
- 1:23several others that there had been a
- 1:27plan uh developed by that same same
- 1:31agency a contingency plan in the event
- 1:34of emergency that would suspend the
- 1:37American Constitution and I was deeply
- 1:38concerned about it and wondered if that
- 1:40was the area in which he had worked I
- 1:43believe it it was I most respectfully
- 1:46request that that matter not be touched
- 1:49upon at this stage if we wish to get
- 1:52into this I'm certain Arrangements can
- 1:54be made for an executive
- 1:56session and tragically the only member
- 1:59who got close was Jack Brooks and he was
- 2:01stopped by the chairman
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