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Although Reagan claimed the arms sales were an attempt to cultivate "moderates" in Iran, the evidence shows that this was partly a cover story. Reagan repeatedly focused on the hostages. When he first approved the arms shipments, his go-ahead was based on a memo saying such shipments "may well be our only way to achieve the release of the Americans held in Beirut...
...than before to an organized attempt last November to minimize or even cover up the President's role in the 1985 Israeli arms sales. McFarlane had previously admitted helping draft a chronology that was, in his word, "disingenuous." This time he apparently went further: he confessed to writing a memo last Nov. 18, at the request of his successor, John Poindexter, that was deliberately phrased to "blur" Reagan's role. The memo outlined a way in which the President could plausibly deny having approved the Israeli shipments. If his later insistence that Reagan had given that approval...
...White House source insists the memo was written not for purposes of concealment but in hopes of minimizing an already explosive controversy at a time when the U.S. still thought it had a chance of winning freedom for American hostages held in Lebanon by terrorists influenced by Iran. To others, however, the memo is bound to look like part of an orchestrated cover...
...Iran. The wildly contradictory policies toward two nations suspected of fomenting terrorism showed the Administration's failure to develop any consistent antiterrorist policy. One of the promoters of a Libyan invasion supposedly was Robert Gates, then CIA deputy director for intelligence. He is said to have written a memo in July 1985 plugging an invasion as a way to "redraw the map of North Africa...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence said in a memo dated January 28 that software licenses "can have repercussions both for the individual and the institution." Addressed to software purchasers and users, the memo instructs members of the Faculty to ask designated expert to review their software licenses...