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Iraqgate is apparently not another Watergate. Despite superheated rhetoric from some quarters, there is still little or no hard evidence of massive abuses of power or illegal covert operations. The role of the Bush Administration seems to focus mainly on efforts to inoculate itself against political embarrassment. But that is bad enough, particularly when so many nominally nonpolitical agencies are involved -- including the CIA and the departments of State, Justice, Agriculture and Commerce. And there remains the possibility that evidence of more serious charges could be brought...
...unit in Vietnam running Project Gamma, a top-secret intelligence operation that monitored the results of the secret U.S. bombing in Cambodia, discovers that Chuyen, its key agent, may be a North Vietnamese double. The agent represents a profound threat to what the Green Berets perceive as a sensitive covert White House operation. A low-level CIA official in the embassy gives a wink and a nod for termination with extreme prejudice. Colonel Robert Rheault, a Green Beret officer cut in the Ollie North mode, orders Chuyen's death...
When the U.S. pulled out its forces in 1973, Hanoi handed back 591 prisoners of war. Unaccounted for were hundreds of men the U.S. believed had been captured alive, most from bombing attacks and covert operations in Laos, who were neither returned nor included on Vietnamese lists of the dead. Washington repeatedly demanded more information, but Hanoi refused to respond...
...interviewer that he would have opposed the deal if he had known "what was going on." But the fact is that Bush attended key meetings at which the Iran arms deal was discussed and authorized. He was briefed by National Security Adviser John Poindexter on the finding that authorized covert aid to Iran. There was even discussion in the White House about sending Bush to meet the Iranians personally...
...support the contras is not plausible. A key operative in this supply network, Felix Rodriguez, was sent to Central America with the backing of Bush's office. Documents released in the trial of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, moreover, show that the U.S. government offered Honduras increased economic, military and covert support in exchange for Honduran military aid to the contras. This quid-pro-quo arrangement, whose existence Bush explicitly denied in 1989, violated the congressional ban on indirect U.S. military assistance to the rebels. Documents obtained by TIME show that Reagan approved the deal and that a copy...