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...alteration she described concerned a 1985 memo from North that referred to the possible sinking or seizure of a ship carrying weapons to Nicaragua. The alteration was made obvious, she acknowledged, because the NSC letterhead paper used for the altered version was new and did not exist when the original was written...
However, she described retyping several drafts of a memo that mentioned the diversion of profits. She said she could not recall if a final version was seen by anyone other than herself, North and then-National Security Adviser John Poindexter...
...would not put up the money unless it got proof that the informant really was in touch with Buckley's captors. So in May, North raised the $200,000 from Perot. He then described the plan in a June 7, 1985, memo to McFarlane. The $200,000, he indicated, would only be a kind of down payment; eventually $2 million would be needed from "the donor" to rent a yacht to bring the hostages to Cyprus, to set up a safe house for them on the island and, apparently, to pay additional bribes...
...were a couple of reporters back in 1972 just trying to make sense of Richard Nixon, and he leveled all the bitter might of the presidency at us and let fly. Neither I nor John Osborne, then of the New Republic, felt a thing. Nixon's memo of condemnation emerged just the other day from the 267,500 pages of personal papers released by the National Archives. It is a real zinger...
Nixon's paranoia about the press was world class, as the released memo shows. But not a one of the men who sat in the Oval Office in recent years was without such anger. John Kennedy thought TIME got too personal and ordered the entire Executive Branch not to speak to anyone from the magazine. That ban collapsed within eight hours: Attorney General Robert Kennedy took my call and talked my ear off. When he was President, Lyndon Johnson stalked me around a table roaring, "You're nothing but a whore for the Republican Party!" I'm sorry I could...