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Note: This game, while based in fact, involves a measure of speculation.
The advisers are fictional.
You are President Reagan's national security adviser. The president, fearing that a communist Nicaragua threatens all of Central America, has asked you to find a way to continue helping the "Contras," a Nicaraguan rebel group fighting the Cuban-supported Sandinista government. Congress has limited your legal options, however, by passing the Boland Amendment, which explicitly prohibits any further direct or indirect military aid to the Contras. A staffer suggests the Contras could benefit from another White House endeavor: the sale of missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in the Middle East. The staffer suggests diverting some of the arms sale proceeds to the Contras. This would accomplish two of Reagan's objectives -- freeing hostages and funding the Contras -- but it would directly violate the Boland Amendment. Do you approve the plan or reject it?
Adviser
No. 1
Adviser
No. 2
Intelligence
chief
Click on an adviser for guidance.
APPROVE IT
REJECT IT
