IRAN-CONTRA: THE THEME RESTAURANT

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ITEM: Maggie Koerth-Baker has dinner at El Avion, a restaurant in Costa Rica that sits inside a 1954 Fairchild C-123 cargo plane – specifically one of two such planes bought with the help of the CIA to run weapons (also purchased with the help of the CIA) to guerrillas in Nicaragua in the early 1980s as part of the Iran-Contra Affair.





The other C-123 was shot down over Nicaragua – which is ultimately how the entire Iran-Contra scandal was exposed.

Good food, Maggie says.

I’ve never been to Costa Rica, but if I get a chance to go, this is on my to-do list.

Shot down in flames,

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