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On July 3, 1985, David Kimche, then director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, came to see McFarlane in Washington. Kimche suggested that the time was ripe for the U.S. to establish communication with elements in the Iranian government who were willing to consider a new relationship. (Kimche has said...
Kimche warned from the start that the Iranians sooner or later would ask for arms. Any faction that came to power would first have to develop a constituency in the Iranian military and Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards, and weapons were the only currency likely to sway them. At the same...
McFarlane discussed the Iranian overture with Shultz, Weinberger and Casey -- ironically, at about the time when Reagan, in a July 8 speech, was listing Iran as being first among a "confederation of terrorist states." In mid-July McFarlane, accompanied by Shultz, broached Kimche's ideas to Reagan in Bethesda Naval...
Kimche phoned McFarlane again on July 30 to set up another visit to Washington. He arrived Aug. 2 with some disquieting news: his Iranian contacts had lost confidence in their ability to sway the Lebanese extremists; getting the American hostages released would not be so easy. At the same time...
On Dec. 4, McFarlane resigned and was replaced by Poindexter. Two days later, McFarlane traveled to London to meet with a group of middlemen variously identified as Kimche, Nimrodi and Ghorbanifar. He claims he distrusted these contacts and recommended that the Administration drop any plans for arms sales to Iran...