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WASHINGTON--Attorney General Edwin Meese III yesterday denied through a spokesman that he had any knowledge of a memo written in early October by CIA Director William Casey relaying suspicions that money from U.S. weapons sales to Iran was being diverted to the Contras...
...York Daily News reported in yesterday's editions that Casey has told friends in recent days that he sent Meese a memo shortly after learning from New York businessman Roy Furmark on October 7 of the possible diversion of funds to the rebels fighting the leftist government of Nicaragua...
...Post also quoted sources as saying CIA Director William Casey met in October and again in November with senior Iraqi officials to make sure an improved communications link was functioning and to encourage more attacks on Iranian installations...
Meese chose a select team of three assistants, including Charles Cooper, who assembled and read documents Friday night. On Saturday they began their questioning. The Attorney General called on Secretary of State George Shultz at home and talked with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director Casey as well. Other investigators questioned Poindexter and his predecessor, Robert McFarlane, who had begun the contacts with Iran. Meese's assistants pored over North's papers in his office from early Saturday morning until late into the evening, then summoned North to Meese's office in the Justice Department on Sunday...
...meantime, congressional committees are rushing to schedule hearings, many of which will focus on the possible involvement of other Government officials or agencies in the Iran-contras scam. First up: the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was scheduled to hold hearings Monday to investigate what might have been known by Casey and the CIA, which keeps close tabs on the contras and set up a Swiss bank account to receive money paid by Iran for U.S. arms. Says Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat: "I don't see how the money could be transferred, the logistics could be handled...