- Fawn Hall
Fawn Hall (born 1959) was a
secretary to Lt. ColonelOliver North and a notable figure in theIran-Contra affair , helping him shred confidential documents.Hall was born and raised in Annandale,
Virginia , and graduated fromAnnandale High School in 1977.Involvement in Iran-Contra
Hall was North's secretary from February 1983 until she was fired on
November 25 ,1986 . Hall's mother, Wilma Hall, was secretary toRobert McFarlane , [Reeves, Richard. "President Reagan: Triumph of Imagination". New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2005, p. 367.] Reagan'snational security advisor , North's superior and a major player in Iran-Contra. She datedContras politicianArturo Cruz, Jr. In one mishap, she transposed the digits of a Swiss bank account number, resulting in a contribution from theSultan of Brunei to the Contras being lost. She smuggled confidential papers out of her employer's office onNovember 25 ,1986 , causing PresidentRonald Reagan to form a task force which eventually put both North and Hall on trial.In exchange for her testimony, Hall was granted immunity. She confessed to shredding a large number of documents. On
March 22 ,1989 , she began two days of testimony at Oliver North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington. Among her other testimony was a claim that, "Sometimes you have to go above the law."Life after Iran-Contra
In 1991 she married
Danny Sugerman , former manager ofThe Doors . The two were married until Sugerman's death in 2005. Hall underwentdrug rehabilitation for an addiction tocrack cocaine in the mid-1990s, it being reported at the time that Sugerman first exposed Hall to the drug. [Vowell, Sara. "Radio On: A Listener's Diary." New York City: Saint Martin's Press, 1997, p. 38.]Notes
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References
* Hall, North Trial Testimony, 3/22/89, pp. 5311–16, and 3/23/89, pp. 5373–80, 5385–87; [http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_05.htm Chapter 5 Fawn Hall 147]
* [http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/ Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters Volume I] - Investigations and Prosecutions: Lawrence E. Walsh, Independent Counsel, August 4, 1993; Washington, D.C.
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