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That summer David Kimche, then director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, traveled to Washington to discuss the idea with McFarlane, then National Security Adviser, and North. McFarlane was in the mood to listen: though details are sketchy, the White House privately credited Iran with helping win the release *Khashoggi...
of the hostages who had been hijacked to Beirut aboard TWA Flight 847 in June 1985. Kimche and the Americans talked about demands of good faith. The Iranians wanted weapons. The U.S. wanted the release of Americans who were being held captive in Lebanon. While McFarlane maintains he did not...
Former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, the Washington Post * reported last week, met in July 1985 with David Kimche, then director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry. Kimche informed him that Iran was prepared to improve relations with the U.S. and help win the release of American hostages in Lebanon...
Early in 1986, according to the Post, after McFarlane left the Administration, he and NSC Staffer Oliver North flew to London to meet Kimche. They were joined by Nimrodi and Ghorbanifar. The London meeting purportedly ended in a stalemate after the Americans demanded the hostages be released before any more...
Nothing would be wrong, of course, with Israel offering its own aid to El Salvador or the contras, even at U.S. request. Washington and Jerusalem were full of rumors last week that the subject would come up when David Kimche, director general of the Israeli foreign ministry and a former...