Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan brooded about it as he hurried through his morning briefing on the aftermath of the hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Although U.S. intelligence had pinpointed the terrorists in Egypt, and a scheme was being hatched to try and capture them if they fled, they were still out of reach...
At Tuesday morning's daily 9:30 National Security Council briefing in the Oval Office, McFarlane reviewed with the President what the U.S. could and should do. As usual, the options seemed pitifully few. U.S. and Italian ships and planes were tailing the Achille Lauro as it wandered across the...
White House aides were ecstatic. Reagan called Prime Minister Craxi to thank him for his cooperation in agreeing to prosecute the Palestinians, and to reaffirm that the U.S. very much wanted to prosecute them too. When Admiral John Poindexter, the Deputy National Security Adviser, entered the regular 9:30 NSC...
In a major speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and an interview with TIME, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stressed that Moscow is "very far along" in missile-defense R. and D. President Reagan, in impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of...
At midweek, Weinberger and Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle appeared in the Pentagon briefing room. They stood before an array of charts and photographs, including ones of Leonid Smirnov, director of the Soviet Military Industrial Commission, and KGB Boss Victor Chebrikov. The rogues' gallery provided an atmospheric backdrop for...