Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane dies at 84
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Summary
He brought with him a cake and a Bible signed by Reagan.The scheme began to unfold after a cargo plane carrying a CIA-arranged shipment of arms was shot down in October 1986 by the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, setting off what eventually became one of the biggest modern political scandals.McFarlane was rushed to a Washington-area hospital in February 1987 after taking an overdose of Valium the day before he was scheduled to testify before a presidential commission investigating the Iran-Contra scheme.He pleaded guilty in March 1988 to four misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress.
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