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Palmer National of Washington, D.C. is a Bank in Washington, D.C. . It was founded in 1983 by Harvey McLean, Jr. (a businessman from Shreveport, Louisiana ; a Republican who had worked in George Bush 's 1980 presidential election campaign) and Stefan Halper (who worked on the same campaign as McLean, and was George Bush's foreign-policy advisor. Halper was later accused of masterminding a number of dirty tricks against the Carter campaign). It was initially funded with $2.8 million dollars to McLean from Herman K. Beebe . Oliver North used this bank during the Iran-Contra scandal by funneling money from his Shell Organization , the "National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty", through Palmer National Bank to the Contras .


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