North Is the Driver of the Whole Administration's Policy Towards the Contras

When reagan takes office there's like 500 contras tops right very few of these dudes not really a movement no by the time north is in his first year at the nsc they were like five or six thousand up. North throws himself into the contra program in the book landslide jane mayer and doyl mcmanis say he was always scheduling meetings on sundays just to distress everyone else cia analyst john horton grumble she's others worried less about his workaholic devotion than his manic intensity michael diver recalled he scared me he'd fly to bay route be back 24 hours later and brief the president reagan loved him loved the style.