Word: antiaircraft
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...trip was unannounced, perhaps to ensure that increasingly accurate mujahedin antiaircraft gunners would not be paying special attention to the skies around Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. But when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Anatoli Dobrynin, the chief of the Central Committee's International Department and for 24 years Moscow's Ambassador to Washington, stepped off their plane at Kabul's international airport last week, it was obvious that the Soviet Union was sending a public -- and very interesting -- message. Shevardnadze and Dobrynin, the most senior Moscow officials to visit Afghanistan since Soviet troops invaded that country...
...secretly met with Iranian representatives. Some contend the meeting took place in Geneva; others say Washington. Then, in November, a ship loaded with parts for American-made F-4 jets and helicopters sailed from northern Italy to Israel. The cargo was transferred to a plane carrying Israeli-supplied Hawk antiaircraft missiles for shipment to Iran. The plane was provided by Southern Air Transport, formerly a CIA proprietary airline. CIA Director William Casey told Congressmen two weeks ago that he had approved the use of the plane but thought that the cargo would be oil-drilling parts. As it turns...
...then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk antiaircraft missiles to Iran as a sign of good faith. They also discussed the idea of trading weapons for hostages...
...Thursday, Representative Jim Wright, who will become Speaker when the newly elected Congress meets, went to the White House to hear from National Security Adviser John Poindexter. Afterward the Texas Democrat told reporters that Iran had purchased 2,008 TOW antitank missiles and 235 "battery assemblies" for Hawk antiaircraft missiles from the U.S.; he later put the price at $12 million. The number of TOWs would be double the figure cited by a reporter at Reagan's news conference and not corrected by the President. The disclosure also undercut Reagan's contention that the weapons sent by the U.S. were...
...Israel. In any case, the Israeli businessmen were authorized by Peres to resume contacts and strike a deal with the Iranians. The executives turned to Adnan Khashoggi, a famed Saudi Arabian wheeler-dealer and an extremely wealthy businessman. He got a long shopping list from Tehran that included Hawk antiaircraft missiles and radar-guidance equipment for them, antitank missiles, and spare parts for jet fighters...