Eugene Hasenfus, who played a key role in unraveling the Iran-Contra affair after his CIA-backed supply plane was shot down ...

Eugene Hasenfus, a former Marine who was a major figure in the 1986 Iran-Contra arms affair after his gunrunning cargo plane ...

He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.

Eugene Hasenfus, a Marinette man whose name became synonymous with the Reagan-era Iran-Contra scandal, has died at 84 after a ...

William Hasenfus Sr. stood stock-still in the living room of his mobile home and stared at the television news film of his son, Eugene, flanked by Nicaraguan soldiers. ”I am so damn surprised,” he ...

“We would like to see an improvement in the relationship between Nicaragua and the United States. And if freeing Mr. Hasenfus could help improve those relations, we are not going to hesitate in ...

Thirty years ago last Wednesday, a plane was shot down. As it spiraled into a Central American jungle, it brought down the curtain behind which a secret government was selling missiles to the state ...

The Nicaraguan government Wednesday pardoned and released Eugene Hasenfus, the American gunrunner who was serving a 30-year sentence for supplying weapons to the anti-Sandinista rebels. Hasenfus, 45, ...

Eugene Hasenfus, the American mercenary convicted of running guns to the Nicaraguan rebels but released by the Sandinistas, arrived in Miami Thursday on his way home to Wisconsin. Marinette Mayor ...

On Oct. 5, 1986 a C-123 plane carrying arms for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels was shot down by Sandinista forces over southern Nicaragua . The only survivor, American Eugene Hasenfus, was captured and ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — By American standards, the austere Managua neighborhood of Reparto Shick is an unlikely home for a judge hearing one of the most celebrated trials in Nicaraguan history. Most of ...