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WASHINGTON--President Reagan refused to answer questions yesterday about the Iran-Contra scandal, while Defense Secretary Casper W. Weinberger '38 said the administration had secretly provided intelligence information to both sides in the Iran-Iraq...
Leaks are to Washington as cars are to Detroit. "Unauthorized disclosures" are the capital's chief commodity, and recently the city has had to cope with a surplus. Before the Senate Intelligence Committee managed to finish its probe of the Iran-contra affair last month, several versions of its report got into circulation prematurely. Minnesota's David Durenberger, the ranking Republican, even slipped the findings to Ronald Reagan; word of that indiscretion also leaked, provoking a minor uproar...
Gates' closeness to Casey has prompted speculation about his role in the Iran-contra scandal. The Senate Intelligence Committee has noted that Gates was aware of the possibility of illegal diversion of Iran-arms profits to the Nicaraguan contras last October, more than a month before Attorney General Edwin Meese discovered the scheme and reported it to the President. When Gates heard of the diversion from a CIA desk officer, the Intelligence Committee reported, he and Casey did nothing more than ask National Security Council Aide Oliver North if their agency was involved. After North assured them...
North's career and reputation have fallen into limbo since Nov. 25, when he was fired by Ronald Reagan for his central role in the Iran-contra scandal. The man whom the President described as a "national hero" has become a pariah to the embattled Administration. White House aides depict North as an overzealous underling who misled his colleagues and superiors and perverted the President's foreign policy. When a high-ranking Reagan official asked about inviting North for dinner, the State Department's legal adviser, Abraham Sofaer, told him to "forget...
...bits and pieces of the Iran-contra scandal that have slowly leaked out have presented an unsettling image of Ronald Reagan's closest advisers: scheming, overreaching aides deliberately misleading one another while keeping an already out-of-touch President in the dark about their secret operations. That impression was reinforced last week with the release of a Senate Intelligence Committee report based on three weeks of hearings the panel held last December...