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Pentagon Says Figure at Heart of Controversial 'Terror Market' Plan to Resign.

By Stephen J. Hedges, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 1--WASHINGTON--Defense officials said Thursday that retired Admiral John Poindexter, a central figure in the Reagan administration's Iran-Contra scandal, will resign his current job at a Pentagon research agency after a controversy erupted over its plan to set up a futures trading market designed to help predict possible terrorist attacks.

Pentagon officials said Poindexter, who worked in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), would resign within the next sev

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