Fawn Hall

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Fawn Hall (born 1959) was a secretary to Lt. Colonel Oliver North and a notable figure in the Iran-Contra affair, helping him shred valuable confidential documents.

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

1 Involvement in Iran-Contra
2 Life after Iran-Contra
3 References in popular culture
4 Notes
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Involvement in Iran-Contra

Hall was North's secretary from February 1983 until she was fired on November 25, 1986. Hall's mother, Wilma Hall, was secretary to Robert McFarlane,^[1] Reagan's national security advisor, North's superior and a major player in Iran-Contra. 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."

[edit] Life after Iran-Contra

In 1991 she married Danny Sugerman, former manager of The Doors. The two were married until Sugerman's death in 2005. Hall underwent drug rehabilitation for an addiction to crack cocaine in the mid-1990s, it being reported at the time that Sugerman first exposed Hall to the drug.^[2]

[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.
In the Gilmore Girls episode "Cinnamon's Wake," Lorelai compares her secretly dating Rory's teacher to the Iran-Contra scandal. When Rory calls her "Oliver North," Lorelai insists, "No, I'm Fawn Hall. She was much prettier."
A pictorial in Hustler magazine featured Fawn Hall and Oliver North lookalikes having simulated sex in an office.
In the American Dad! episode "Stanny Slickers II: The Legend of Ollie's Gold," Stan sings a Schoolhouse Rock-type song about Oliver North to teach Steve who Oliver North is. Stan sings "The truth he did bury, with his hot secretary" over a clip of a cartoon Fawn Hall shredding documents.

[edit] Notes

^ Reeves, Richard. President Reagan: Triumph of Imagination. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2005, p. 367.
^ Vowell, Sara. Radio On: A Listener's Diary. New York City: Saint Martin's Press, 1997, p. 38.