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...that was leaked. But the report does clarify some of the details of how the Iran- contra affair evolved. In December 1985, for instance, several of Reagan's top aides argued against sending U.S. arms to Iran. But, the report says, North may have won Reagan over with a memo warning, "If the program is terminated, then the hostages will...
Another North memo, prepared for the President last January, also outlined the rationale for beginning direct U.S. arms shipments to Iran. Reagan evidently did not read the three-page document. Instead, Poindexter apparently gave him an oral briefing and then signed Reagan's initials at the bottom. The White House was at pains to point to the paper's justification of weapons deliveries as a way of fostering ties to Iran's moderate elements. Yet the Senate report says that Casey had devised this line of reasoning to cloud the true arms-for-hostages nature of the arrangement. The document...
...after the Senate report was leaked, White House Counsel Peter Wallison released both the background memo and Reagan's secret intelligence "finding" authorizing the arms sales to Iran. "I don't want to argue whether this was in fact a swap of arms for hostages," a Reagan aide told reporters. He insisted the documents showed that the weapons deal "was part of a much broader initiative that would help stabilize the (Persian Gulf) region...
...candid memo to United Airlines pilots last month, Captain Lloyd W. Barry, United's senior vice president for flight operations, warned, "I am increasingly concerned about the ever present threat of a midair collision. Within the last twelve months, United crews have averaged 6.3 near-misses per month. Any of these incidents could have resulted in a catastrophe had it not been for the professional skill of our pilots or, in some cases, just plain good luck...
...Israeli who participated in U.S.-approved sales to Iran in 1985 of American weapons from Israeli stockpiles reveals that some of the proceeds were originally supposed to be funneled back into Iran to finance groups working to overthrow the Khomeini government. He displayed a memo written to Shimon Peres, then Israeli Prime Minister, which named this ingenious scheme of having the Ayatullah finance his own downfall as one of the goals of the arms sales...