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...notorious trip to Tehran last May with a plane bearing weapons and the expectation that all American hostages would be released, North uncharacteristically suggested to Poindexter that a "quiet" meeting be held with the President, Shultz, Weinberger and Casey to review the plans. Responded Poindexter in a computer memo to North: "I don't want a meeting with RR, Shultz and Weinberger." It was not held...
...sell arms directly to Iran, a formal presidential finding was necessary. Reagan signed one on Jan. 6, according to the report, but Regan told the board that the President had done so "in error." He signed another one on Jan. 17. Although the President did not read the covering memo explaining why the finding was needed, he does remember making the decision. He wrote in his diary, "I agreed to sell TOWs to Iran...
...panel cites evidence that the CIA may have known about the existence of a possible diversion far earlier than it has admitted: a memo from George Cave, a former CIA official working with North on the Iran initiative, reported that Ghorbanifar, at a meeting in Paris in early March, had "proposed that we use profits from these deals and others to fund support to the rebels in Afghanistan. We could do the same with Nicaragua." But Cave told the board that neither he nor Ghorbanifar had ever mentioned a diversion...
...April of last year, North prepared a memo seeking presidential approval for McFarlane's trip to Tehran and stating that $12 million in "residual" funds from the transaction would "be used to purchase critically needed supplies for the Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance Forces." But the board could find no evidence that North had even sent the memo to Poindexter. By May, North had told McFarlane that "the government is availing itself of part of the money for application to Central America." North told Assistant ^ Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage in November that "it's going to be just fine . . . the Ayatollah...
Prior to the vote, committee member David H. Hirsch, a professor of English, wrote a memo to other EPC members in which he lambasted the proposed concentration...