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On January 21, 1987, as details of the Contra organization and its improbable supporters came to light, the FBI interviewed Dennis Ainsworth. The transcription of the interview, dated February 27, 1987, informs the Bureau of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force's (FDN) intentions to sell arms and cocaine for profit, rather than in an effort to overthrow the Sandanista government. Ainsworth's narratives involving Calero, the head of the FDN, Dowling, a prominent FDN spokesperson, and Owen, a secretive go- between, point out the profundity of the FDN's acquirement of weapons and monetary support in the United States. In an attempt to participate with the FDN, Ainsworth invited Adolfo Calero to San Fransisco to speak before prominent audiences. During one visit, Calero introduced Ainsworth to Rob Owen. Owen worked for the National Security Council under Oliver
North. The three men, united by “the ideology of creating opposition against the revolutionary Sandanista government,” drove to Sacramento. While in the car, “Owen opened his briefcase and conversed in the back seat...with Calero about weapons, referring from time to time to a list of various weapons that Owen was carrying with him and Adolfo Calero discussed his weapons needs(Federal Bureau of Investigation).” Ainsworth's eyewitness account confirms a direct relationship between the National Security Council and the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. The NSC unabashedly met with and gave arms to a Contra group. This same “rebel group” received money through fund raising efforts made by a Catholic priest named Tom Dowling.