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...especially hard to solve a mystery if all the people who actually know the truth are either accomplished liars, adamantly mute, or already dead. Such a conundrum is facing investigators who are still trying to unravel the Iran- contra scandal and other baroque plots that American officials may have hatched in the Middle East over the past decade. Last week, as yet more charges came to light, there was no shortage of fingerprints, plot twists or stool pigeons. But there was a desperate shortage of certainty, perhaps because when truth is stranger than fiction, the two are harder to separate...
Over Memorial Day weekend, Ben-Menashe arrived in Washington bearing allegations about Gates that went far beyond his handling of the Iran-contra scandal. Ben-Menashe charges that Gates was present at three 1980 meetings between William Casey, then manager of Reagan's election campaign, and Iranian officials in Madrid, at which they allegedly discussed delaying the release of the 52 American hostages in Iran in return for shipments of arms through Israel. Ben-Menashe also claims that Gates attended a final meeting in October in Paris, which included not only Casey but the vice-presidential candidate and former...
...month makes provocative disclosures about the tangled relationship between U.S. and Israeli intelligence services. According to Major General Avraham Tamir, a retired senior Israeli defense official quoted in Dangerous Liaison, the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION approved Israeli arms shipments to Tehran for use against Iraq in 1981, long before the Iran-contra affair. Authors Andrew and Leslie Cockburn say the transfers were part of a strategy to head off Soviet influence in the gulf region. The book also describes in detail Operation KK Mountain, in which the CIA secretly paid Israel as much as $20 million annually throughout the 1960s to operate...
...there's anyone who should know how to guard against leaks, it's John Martin, chief of internal security at the Justice Department. Yet Martin went home from the office one night in April, leaving a thick pile of supersensitive documents on the Iran-contra affair sitting on his desk. A routine security sweep that night revealed his carelessness and earned Martin an immediate suspension. Justice insiders say Martin may receive further punishment for the accidental security breach but will probably be able to return...
...have called loyalty an attribute of morality. In both Watergate and the Iran-contra affair, loyalty to the President was at the heart of the wrongdoing...