Word: caving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shut came during testimony by Secretary of State George Shultz at a closed hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week. Shultz said he ordered his emissaries home when he learned of the Iranians' continued demands for arms. In defiance of Shultz's orders, former CIA Agent George Cave stayed behind to hold further discussions with the Iranians...
...Rafizadeh worked solely for the CIA after the Shah fell from power in 1979. According to Rafizadeh, Ghorbanifar first came to the CIA's attention in late 1980 when the Carter Administration was desperate to win the release of U.S. hostages from the seized American embassy in Tehran. George Cave, a retired CIA agent then working under a contract with the agency, asked Rafizadeh if Ghorbanifar could help. The former SAVAK agent advised Cave that Ghorbanifar was "one of the cleverest businessmen I have known. He has the habit of coming in as a partner and then taking over...
...Cave's negative view of Ghorbanifar failed to prevent the Iranian from becoming the linchpin of the covert operation. By November 1985 the Israelis, who had checked out Ghorbanifar at the request of Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian businessman who deems himself a peacemaker, had convinced the NSC staff that Ghorbanifar was too well connected in Iran to be ignored. The NSC undertook the Iran initiative, with the now obviously disastrous results...
When former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, North and the CIA's Cave flew into Tehran with a planeload of U.S. arms last May, Cave still distrusted Ghorbanifar and managed to underscore doubts about him in McFarlane's mind as well. While in Tehran, Cave bypassed Ghorbanifar to cultivate a direct contact with Speaker Rafsanjani. He was sufficiently successful that McFarlane, too, felt he no longer needed Ghorbanifar...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...