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...there a cover-up? In perhaps its weakest section, the report notes that North, "either on his own or at the behest of others, actively sought to conceal important information" after the scandal became known. He produced a chronology of Iranscam events that "had many inaccuracies." McFarlane is faulted for helping Poindexter, North and other NSC staffers produce a dozen versions of this chronology, which the former National Security Adviser admitted "did not present a full and completely accurate account." The board reported that it could not confirm whether North had shredded documents relevant to the investigations under...
...swayed an enthusiastic Reagan and his equally gung-ho NSC and CIA advisers. Ten days later the President signed a secret intelligence "finding," thus permitting "occasional" arms transactions with Iran in spite of the continuing embargo. He assigned management of the deals to the CIA and instructed Casey to conceal the project from Congress. At the same time, Reagan ordered that intelligence traffic on the arms shipments be kept from the State Department and the Pentagon. While Shultz accepted the blackout as a way to distance his department from a dubious policy, Weinberger requested access to the intelligence...
Harvard experts yesterday criticized President Reagan's Thursday night speech in which he justified arms transfers to Iran, calling him unconvincing and charging that he attempted to conceal his motives for making the deal...
...very lame explanation," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, a former National Security Adviser to Reagan, referring to Reagan's desire to reopen communication between Iran and the United States. Pipes, an expert on the Soviet Union, said Reagan should not have attempted to conceal U.S. dealings with Iran, and described the President's current situation as "a mess...
...traditional pillared facade of the New York Stock Exchange. There is still plenty of human hubbub on the trading floor, but less than there used to be in the pre- electronic '60s. Glowing cathode-ray screens now festoon the marble columns of the venerable hall. Overhead, gold-painted tubes conceal telephone and computer cables. Some 450 specialists stand guard at 14 trading posts, a few more than in older days, matching buy and sell orders from stockbrokers...