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Driving along a desert road near the Red Sea resort of Eilat Monday morning, an Israeli officer picked up a young Arab hitchhiker. The reserve colonel dropped off his passenger at a quiet Eilat shopping mall, but he had lingering suspicions about the youth - so he called the Eilat police...
...mysterious middlemen. There were straw companies set up precisely to obscure the paper trail, and private individuals who acted as "cutouts" to shield the government officials directing them. But throughout the maze investigators repeatedly stumbled across the delicate footprints of the CIA, along with the clumsier presence of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and an old-boy network of his former colleagues on the staff of the National Security Council...
...nightmare situation of all came after two EDS managers were jailed in Tehran amid the revolutionary chaos of 1978. While bargaining with the tottering regime of the Shah for his men's release, Perot organized a commando team from among his EDS employees and hired a former Green Beret colonel, Arthur ("Bull") Simons, to lead an improbable rescue mission. Incredibly, it succeeded. Perot's operatives persuaded a revolutionary mob to storm the jail where the EDS men were held, then spirited the Americans 500 miles to safety in Turkey. Perot's feat was popularized by Novelist Ken Follett...
...even though the actions represented most of what the sidelines doctors had prescribed, the furor over "Iranscam" barely abated. When Reagan's departed National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his renegade deputy Lieut. Colonel Oliver North appeared before a Senate committee, both invoked the Fifth Amendment. Robert McFarlane, Poindexter's predecessor and an early promoter of establishing contacts with Iran, did respond to Senate interrogators, but he cast doubt on Reagan's claims about what the President knew and when he knew it. As a flood of disclosures about North's secret arms network fueled fascination with details...
...circumspect: after keeping mum for nearly two weeks, a foreign ministry spokesman finally confirmed the test on Jan. 23 - although he insisted that the government remains opposed to an arms race in space. Those disinclined to trust China's protestations might cite "Space War," a 2001 book by Chinese colonel and miltiary academic Lee Ta-kawang, which argues that "The essential principle of war in the 21st century is to achieve victory through space...