 Ultimately the case was dismissed by a federal judge in 1990 on grounds that Terrell had not violated the neutrality act.In the course of legal discovery in the Terrell case, Mattes obtained stacks of previously classified documents about the secret Contra supply network.These he turned over to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and its Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Communications, headed by Senator John Kerry, which was then digging into Contra improprieties.