The Nation - News from July 23, 1989
Costa Rica has barred former White House aide Oliver L. North and former U.S. National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter from entering its territory after a yearlong parliamentary probe into arms and drugs smuggling, Information Minister Jorge Urbina said in San Jose, the nation’s capital. Also banned from the country were ex-U.S. Ambassador Lewis A. Tambs, arms dealer Richard V. Secord and former CIA Costa Rica station chief Joseph F. Fernandez, Urbina said. A lower house committee said it believed they were in some way involved in arms and drug smuggling, but gave no specific evidence.
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