During the two-year period (1984-1986) when US law barred agencies involved in intelligence activities from providing military support to the Nicaraguan contras, Reagan Administration officials were secretly conducting an illegal resupply operation that provided guns and ammunition to the contrast.

George Bush says, ''I knew nothing of the shipments by the so-called private network of arms to the contras."21/

But the record shows that Bush and his aides had frequent contact with staff of the contra resupply operation...

George Bush met personally with Felix Rodriguez, a liaison officer with the contra resupply, operation, and 22/ three times in 1985 and 1986—including a May 1, 1986 meeting where they discussed "resupply of the contras, according to the Briefing Memorandum for the Vice President describing the meeting's agenda.23/

Felix Rodriguez also met at least ten times with Bush's national security adviser, Donald Gregg, or his deputy, Col. Sam Watson, between 1984 and 1986, according to chronologies released by the Vice President's office. 24/

Rodriguez' "acquaintanceship with the VP is read enough, going back to [Bush's] days as DCI (Director of the Central Intelligence Agency]," wrote the head of the US Southern Command in Panama in a February 1985 cable.25/

"Felix talking too much about VP connection," wrote contra resupply coordinator Oliver North in his January 9, 1986 notebook entry.26/

When the contra resupply plane with American Eugene Hasenfus aboard crashed in Nicaragua in October 1986—thus exposing the illegal operation—one of the first US government officials contacted was Vice Presidential aide Sam Watson.27/ Hasenfus testified that he was told the contra resupply was "being run out of the White House, and Bush knew things."28/