I did know the guy who mined the harbors, though. That was Duane "Dewey" Clarridge. He was a real operator. He came up with that idea one night while drinking Scotch, and just did it without bothering to ask Washington about it. The Reagan administration woke up with a tool they never asked for -- at least, that's how Dewey told the story. He would have told it that way to protect them, too. He was loyal to the American project do or die, and eminently proud of his pardon over the Iran-Contra business. He was my friend; I sat at his deathbed.
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