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...this source: Regan, Poindexter (who, as McFarlane's deputy at that time, took notes), Deputy CIA Director John McMahon, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz. No written intelligence "finding" justifying this circumvention of the U.S. embargo on weapons to Iran was prepared. Attorney General Edwin Meese said last month that Reagan had learned of the Israeli shipment only after the fact; White House Spokesman Larry Speakes last week amended that to say, in effect, that Reagan could not remember whether he gave an advance green light...
WASHINGTON--Attorney General Edwin Meese III yesterday denied through a spokesman that he had any knowledge of a memo written in early October by CIA Director William Casey relaying suspicions that money from U.S. weapons sales to Iran was being diverted to the Contras...
North was fired from President Reagan's National Security Council staff on November 25 after Attorney General Edwin Meese III said North knew about profits being diverted from secret Iranian arms sales to the Contras this year. Before his firing, the White House consistently denied that North raised money for the Contras...
...said the arrangement between Gregg and Rodriguez had nothing to do with the diversion to the rebels of profits from secret U.S. sales of arms to Iran. Both Bush and President Reagan have said they knew nothing about the diversion until it was disclosed last month by Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...Nicaragua by these ... groups may have come from the money we have now heard about (as being diverted) from the Iran arms sale," he said. He said he had no independent information other than reporters' questions about possible political use of Iran arms-sale proceeds that Attorney General Edwin Meese says was funnelled to the Contras...