Last Updated: Nov. 2, 2000

                   Waukesha - Former Iran-contra gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus was sentenced Thursday
                   to spend one year on probation for indecently exposing himself.

                   "I must admit this is one of the most ignorant, stupid, most embarrassing things that has
                   ever happened to me," Hasenfus said in court before being sentenced Thursday.
                   "Unfortunately, it happened. I'm not trying to hide behind anyone's coats.
                   I'm trying to be outward, laying myself on the mercy of this court."

                   Hasenfus exposed himself while masturbating in his pickup truck July 10 in the parking lot
                   of Kmart, according to the criminal complaint. A shopper returning to her car told police
                   she saw a man exposing himself.

                   Hasenfus told police he stuck a construction-type glove over his license plate to hide it
                   in case someone caught him, according to the criminal complaint, but that the shopper
                   removed the glove and jotted down Hasenfus' plate number.

                   Hasenfus pleaded no contest to an indecent exposure charge and was found guilty.
                   A former Marine from Marinette, Hasenfus, 59, now lives in Milwaukee.

                   A plane Hasenfus was on was shot down in Nicaragua in October 1986. He was the
                   sole survivor of the crew but was captured by the Sandinistas and jailed for 73 days while
                   the U.S. government denied any knowledge that he was running guns to the contra rebels
                   as part of a CIA-directed operation.

                   The incident prompted the investigation into the involvement of the Reagan administration
                   in a CIA-directed operation to arm the contra rebels through money obtained by secret
                   U.S. arms sales to terrorist Iran.