Avink McCowen Secord Obit: The Surprising Updates Everyone’s Sharing - Away State Journal
Major General Richard Vernon Secord ( – ) was a United States Air Force officer who worked in covert operations. Early in his military service, he was a member of the first U.S. aviation detachment sent to the Vietnam War in August 1961, Operation Farm Gate.
To the end, Gen. Secord saw himself as a victim of perfidy in Washington, and he defended the Iran and contra initiatives as necessary steps in advancing the nation’s interest.
Richard V. Secord, a former Air Force general and C.I.A. operative who was the logistical middleman in the Iran-contra scandal that rocked the Reagan administration with illegal arms sales to...
Major General Richard Vernon Secord, a legendary combat aviator, distinguished leader, and brilliant military strategist, passed away on , at the age of 92.
Major General Richard V. Secord is deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs (Near East, Africa and South Asia affairs), Washington, D.C.
Richard V. Secord, a retired U.S. Air Force major general who landed in the national spotlight after his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s, has died.
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Secord rose to become a major general but his military career ended somewhat ignominiously. In 1983 he retired from the Air Force, and resigned as deputy assistant secretary of defence, over his links to Edwin Wilson, a rogue CIA agent who sold explosives to the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddifi.
