BEAT THE DEVIL.

The article focuses on the flow chart found in Colonel Oliver North's White House safe. The flow chart published in Appendix C of the Tower commission's report portrays the network of foundations and companies spliced together to hold profits from the Iran arms sales, to send money and arms to the Nicaraguan contras, to lobby domestically for the U.S. President Ronald Reagan's policies and attack his opponents. Among the twenty-three boxes on the chart are the initials of some bodies with which one has become familiar: the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty and the American Conservative Trust, both established by the right-wing fund-raiser Carl Channell.