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...late August, Israel sent a planeload of arms to Iran. The cargo consisted mostly of Soviet-made weapons that the Israelis had captured in Lebanon. Though the plane landed safely at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, the arms never got to the Iranian army. They were seized by members of the vehemently anti- Western Revolutionary Guards...
Meanwhile, Transportation Department documentsshow that a former CIA air transport company, saidto have played key roles in both arms sales toIrans and shipments to the Nicaraguan rebels, flewmore than 400 tons of cargo this year into an airbase used by an American-manned Contra resupplyoperation...
...Eugene Hasenfus late last week, there were no surprises. Since the opening of the trial on Oct. 20, the outcome had never been in doubt. Ample evidence, and Hasenfus' own admission, confirmed that the former Marine had been delivering weapons to the U.S.-backed contras when his C-123K cargo plane was downed over Nicaragua on Oct. 5. For that act, Hasenfus was found guilty of terrorism, illicit association and violation of public security. He received a 30-year sentence, the maximum penalty under Nicaraguan law, and will seek an appeal...
...taking this into account," Reagan said in his statement, "all of the shipments of the token amounts of defensive arms and parts that I have authorized or condoned, taken in total, could be placed aboard a single cargo aircraft. Any other shipments by third countries were not authorized by the U.S. government...
...early September, stayed at the Independence (formerly Hilton) Hotel and met with a variety of officials from the Iranian Foreign Ministry, parliament and army, who supposedly asked for more military equipment. Shortly after the visit, said Al Shiraa, the U.S. airlifted the arms to Iran in four C-130 cargo planes flying out of a base in the Philippines. No independent evidence of any such flight has come to light, but the rest of the story contains elements of truth...