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After he learned of the raid, Haig summoned his senior aides and Middle East specialists to the State Department's seventh-floor operations center. They were still in their Sunday sports clothes. They agreed that the U.S. should not break the news of the attack: to do so would feed the inevitable charges that America had supported the Israeli plans, or at least had known about and failed to stop them. Haig ordered cables sent to U.S. embassies around the world, alerting them that the bombing had occurred. A few leaders on Capitol Hill were also advised...
...statement was released Monday morning, after Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government proudly announced the bombing as a preemptive, defensive attack on a nuclear plant that, it insisted, would have had the capacity soon to produce weapons to be used against Israel. Haig and Reagan, who had both returned to Camp David for the talks with López Portillo, discussed toughening the U.S. position as Arab protests mounted. Reagan agreed that this should be done. Crafted at the State Department, a new statement was shown to the President by Haig. Reagan approved it without changing a word. Read...
...action? This touchy topic was first tackled in depth late on Tuesday afternoon, after López Portillo's farewell meeting with Reagan at the White House. A group of Reagan's top advisers assembled in the Oval Office for an hour and 15 minutes. Present were Haig, Allen, Vice President George Bush, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey and the President's troika of Aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Mike Deaver. They reached a consensus with little argument: Israel should be penalized...
...Haig and his advisers began considering the options, which ranged in theory to a total suspension of all U.S. military aid to Israel, an action that would produce a fire storm of criticism from Israel's backers in the U.S. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker hurried to the White House to express the sentiment of the upper chamber. His advice, as a Baker intimate put it, was "Take some kind of action, but don't go too far. Buy time and let the heat of the moment pass." In the end, the group decided that four...
...President next day approved the recommendation. Beyond placing a temporary hold on the F-16s, the Administration sent a letter, signed by Haig, to Senator Charles Percy, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. As required by the Arms Export Control Act of 1968, Haig formally advised Percy that U.S. planes had been used in the Israeli action. He also suggested that Israel might have committed "a substantial violation" of the 1952 arms sales agreement with the U.S. Haig promised to review this matter and discuss it with the Israeli government...