Fawn Hall

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Fawn Hall (born 1959) was a notable figure in the Iran-Contra affair.

Hall was born and raised in Annandale, Virginia, and graduated from Annandale High School in 1977.

She was Lt. Colonel Oliver North's secretary from February 1983 until she was fired on November 25, 1986. She dated Contras politician Arturo Cruz, Jr. In one mishap, she transposed the digits of a Swiss bank account number, resulting in a contribution from the Sultan of Brunei to the Contras being lost. She smuggled confidential papers out of her employer's office on November 25, 1986, causing President Ronald Reagan to form a task force which eventually put both North and Hall on trial.

In exchange for her testimony, Hall was granted immunity. She confessed to shredding a large number of documents. On March 22, 1989, she began two days of testimony at Oliver North's Iran-Contra trial in Washington. Among her other testimony was a claim that, "Sometimes you have to go above the law."

In 1991 she married Danny Sugerman, former manager of The Doors. The two were married until Sugerman's death in 2005.

[edit] References in Popular Culture

• Despite Hall's involvement in Iran-Contra not being a sex scandal, Hall was named a Playboy "Sex Star of 1987".
• "A Colder War", a novella by Charles Stross, has Hall and Oliver North as main characters in an alternate universe incorporating both the Cthulhu Mythos and the Cold War.

[edit] External links

• Fawn Hall at the Internet Movie Database
• Fawn Hall at the Notable Names Database

[edit] References

• Hall, North Trial Testimony, 3/22/89, pp. 5311–16, and 3/23/89, pp. 5373–80, 5385–87; Chapter 5 Fawn Hall 147

• Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters Volume I - Investigations and Prosecutions: Lawrence E. Walsh, Independent Counsel, August 4, 1993; Washington, D.C.