Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East middlemen in the arms deal, Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and Iranian representative Manucher Ghorbanifar, said on ABC-TV's "20-20" program that North apparently controlled Swiss bank accounts through which up to $35 million was deposited in the secret Iran weapons transactions that he coordinated...
Speakes, asked whether the White House agreed with Buchanan's contention that breaking the law might be justified, said of the Iranian controversy, "We don't seek to justify it, we seek to get the facts...
Almost from the first day of the Iranian money disclosures, Reagan has been suspect. He has been spared some savaging because of his well-known style of delegating authority and his disdain for details and the fact he has claimed no knowledge of the transfers of money. His word in the past has been good...
...Americans do anything in secret anymore? You are a Russian or an Israeli or an Iranian. Tomorrow you are approached by an American agent to help his cause in a secret operation. Do you accept the offer? Not unless you have a lot of life insurance and a craving for publicity...
...disclosures -- names, dates, places, faces -- that will make it very unsafe to be an American agent. For some Americans that will mean the end of a political career. Elsewhere survival has a different meaning. In the early '80s, Israel had, then lost, contacts in the middle levels of the Iranian military. "They died out," said an Israeli official to the New York Times. "I mean that literally. Our contacts were executed...