Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think we've done a great job, I really do. On the Iranian thing we have done what we were supposed to do. We have done it well, and we've accounted for everything. The CIA role was to provide support to an activity under the direction of the NSC. All the activities were entirely properly conducted and fully authorized. We received $12 million to pay for the Defense Department weapons shipped to Iran. It has been meticulously accounted for. We facilitated the movement of these weapons in three separate flights, and none of the $12 million reaching...
Persisting, Furmark visited Casey in his Langley, Va., headquarters on Nov. 24, the day before Meese announced that the contras were receiving money from the Iran weapons deals. Furmark told Casey that Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian middleman in the arms deal, was claiming that the missing money had gone to the contras. Said Furmark: "Casey placed a call to Don Regan but couldn't get him. He then tried Poindexter and could not get him either. Finally he called North and said, 'There is a man here who says you owe him $10 million.' He chatted with North...
...more information emerges on both the Iranian adventure and the contra military resupply, the names of former CIA agents and assets keep appearing. Eugene Hasenfus, the American captured by the Sandinistas after his C-123K cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua on Oct. 5, had performed similar work as a CIA "cargo kicker" over Laos during the Viet Nam War. A more significant connection is George Cave, who was a young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served...
...advertisements and perhaps even the campaigns of pro-contra congressional candidates. That charge is being made publicly by Democrats who have little evidence and obvious axes to grind, but it is a suspicion that is being voiced within the Executive Branch as well. According to one Government source, the Iranian arms profits were diverted into a political slush fund. According to another source close to the FBI, the bureau is "looking into the possibility of a connection" between money that was supposed to have gone to the contras and "Republican campaign contributions...
...Israeli government minister described to TIME how North had directed the diversion of Iranian arms profits to Swiss bank accounts. His story: stung by the official American announcement that money had been paid by "representatives of Israel" into Swiss accounts controlled by the contras, the three top leaders of the Jerusalem government summoned Amiram Nir, North's liaison in Israel, to tell them what happened. Nir waved a piece of green paper at them. Said he: "This is all I got from Oliver North. This is a name of a Swiss bank and the account number in North's handwriting...