Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business of espionage, William Casey operated in a world of manipulated fact and disinformation, a place where candor is rarely considered a virtue and anyone asking questions should be treated with suspicion. No, he insisted from the first, he knew nothing about money from Iranian arms sales being funneled to the contras. Even Richard Secord, who helped oversee the diversion of funds and testified on Capitol Hill last week about his meetings with Casey, could not say with certainty whether the CIA director knew...
...special tour last September was disclosed Monday night by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, who worked closely with North on Iranian arms sales and funding for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels...
Secord said on ABC-TV's "Nightline" news program that he and Iranian-born business partner Albert Hakim arranged to bring the Iranians to Washington to convince them they were dealing with real U.S. officials...
...told friends he intends to lay his story out candidly and will not be shaken by others. He has privately said he feels that he kept the President informed of the Iran and contra-funding operations, including telling him in general terms on at least two occasions that the Iranian operations were benefiting the contras. Some committee members were irked last week when Reagan seemed to be sending Poindexter a signal. Asked whether he was worried about the admiral's testimony, Reagan replied, "No. John Poindexter's an honorable man . . . I was not informed...
...North was so taken with the prince that he went to Ronald Reagan and National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and faces five years in jail...