In September, Clair E. George, the former No. 3 official at the agency, was charged in a 10-count indictment with misleading Congress about the affair.

Mr. Abrams, a central figure in the Iran-contra affair, has acknowledged misleading Congress on solicitation of funds and secret supply efforts for the Nicaraguan rebels.

Bay of Pigs Veteran The testimony was the highlight of the day's proceedings in the trial of Clair E. George, the C.I.A.'s former deputy director for operations, who is charged with lying to a grand jury and misleading Congress.

The people being interviewed will not be under oath, but they will be subject to rules that prohibit misleading Congress.

Mr. George is charged with lying to a grand jury and misleading Congress.

Senator Metzenbaum charges that some drug companies have given Congress misleading and highly inflated estimates of their research and development costs.

Mr. Poindexter is also charged with misleading Congress in November 1986 about American involvement in 1985 arms sales to Iran.

These officials also said the manipulation of "Star Wars" tests was part of a deception campaign, intended to fool the Soviet Union, that overstepped its bounds and wound up misleading Congress about the progress of the missile-defense program.

Q. Admiral, in saying that you are complying with the letter and spirit of a law, when you mean that the law doesn't apply and that you are supporting the contras, you do not consider that to be misleading Congress?

North conceded at the committees' public hearings that he had participated in making statements to Congress that were "false," "misleading," "evasive and wrong."