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...London to meet with a group of middlemen variously identified as Kimche, Nimrodi and Ghorbanifar. He claims he distrusted these contacts and recommended that the Administration drop any plans for arms sales to Iran. On the same day in Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger persuaded Reagan to hold a meeting to discuss the NSC's proposal to sell arms directly to Iran. Six months earlier, when Weinberger received a CIA report favoring weapons deals with the Iranian army, he penciled in THIS IS ABSURD. Shultz also objected to arms sales but believed that...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had long urged Reagan to break SALT II as retaliation for alleged Soviet violations, but State Department officials feared the move would bolster Soviet charges that the U.S. was intent on scuttling arms-control negotiations. Indeed, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev hinted as much during his visit to India last week, terming the deployment of the B-52 a "major mistake" that called into question the "entire logic of the Reykjavik talks." In Moscow the Foreign Ministry warned that the Soviet Union would be forced to beef up its own nuclear arsenal...
...Caspar Weinberger...
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...
Hollings said he was positive the President had authorized the secret arms sales to Iran and the aid to the Contras and that Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 knew about it as well...