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While the Briton began as a globe-trotting negotiator acting for the Church of England, his efforts gradually meshed with the U.S. campaign. Waite's ties to Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, the point man in the doomed U.S. trade-off, are well documented. Not only did the two men meet at least five times, but the U.S. provided Waite with helicopters and other assistance during some of his missions. By 1986, the captors had intertwined Waite's efforts with the secret U.S. operation: each time a weapons shipment was made to Iran, an Iranian official would travel to Damascus...
Nobody in Washington knew Hirohito had asked that the warning be delivered before the attack -- 1 p.m. in Washington was 7:30 a.m. in Hawaii -- but an Army intelligence officer, Colonel Rufus Bratton, guessed as much. Bratton telephoned Marshall at his quarters at Fort Myers, Va., but he was out riding. More than an hour later, about 10:30 a.m., Marshall called back and said he was coming to his office shortly. About the same time, Hull was meeting with War Secretary Henry L. Stimson and Navy Secretary Frank Knox. "Hull is very certain that the Japs are planning some...
...unusual qualifications to his latest assignment. As senior White House correspondent during most of Ronald Reagan's second term, he covered the Iran-contra affair, speaking often with North's colleagues in the West Wing and on the National Security Council. He never succeeded in cornering the elusive lieutenant colonel himself, although he did once glimpse the infamous paper shredder. Firsthand knowledge of the players did not prevent Seaman from being surprised by some of the revelations in Under Fire, however. One disclosure was the extent to which the late CIA director William Casey "ran" North, schooling his eager protege...
...American soldier of fortune named Jack Terrell, who once worked for the contra rebels in Nicaragua, created a political storm in the Philippines last week when he implicated Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus in a bizarre plot to murder a handful of President Corazon Aquino's opponents, including rebel Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan...
...participated in the subsequent cover-up? Although a Salvadoran court last week held two army officers responsible for the murders and acquitted seven lower-ranking soldiers, the answers to those questions may never be resolved. With the government under U.S. pressure to punish the perpetrators, the convictions of a colonel and a lieutenant capped a 20-month investigation and three-day trial. But suspicions linger that the two officers may be fall guys for higher-ranking officers who plotted the predawn massacre...