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North, it became clearer last week, was not only the point man in a clandestine effort to support the contras; he was also a hot speaker on the private contra fund-raising circuit. The National Security Council aide began briefing private groups on Central America in 1983 at weekly sessions...
-- Before undertaking his mission to Tehran in May 1986, McFarlane, by then out of the Government but acting as a presidential emissary, went to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and received a briefing and a four-page set of negotiating instructions, a source who was involved recounts. That indicates far...
-- Red faced with anger, Shultz disclosed at a public congressional hearing that U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon John Kelly had bypassed the Secretary of State to conduct negotiations for the release of American hostages with, in Kelly's words, "arms to Iran as an inducement." Kelly had reported his results only...
Sources familiar with Kelly's version of events say that in the briefing Kelly asked McFarlane whether Shultz knew about the arms-hostages talks. McFarlane is said to have replied, "The Secretary is fully informed, but he is completely and totally against it." McFarlane supposedly then instructed Kelly to communicate...
McFarlane came back into the picture in April, when his successor Poindexter phoned him to suggest a mission to Tehran. Poindexter believed the U.S. had an agreement for the release of all remaining hostages. On May 28, after his CIA briefing, McFarlane, along with North, NSC Middle East Specialist Howard...