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...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." His only role, said Nir, was to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What He Needs to Know | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...week. Others who did the same: Richard Secord, a retired Air Force general who was deeply involved in funneling aid to the contras and who, it turned out last week, was also involved in arms and hostage negotiations; Robert Dutton, an associate of Secord's; Robert Owen, allegedly a liaison between North and the contras. Robert Earl, a North deputy, came up with a novel reason for delaying testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. He pleaded his Sixth Amendment right to be represented by counsel, who, he said, would need a long time to get a security clearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What He Needs to Know | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

West European leaders acknowledge that the terrorist threat to their countries cannot be solved without a concerted effort. The day after Besse's murder, French Interior Minister Pasqua and his West German counterpart, Friedrich Zimmermann, agreed in a two-hour meeting to begin exchanging members of their antiterrorist liaison teams in an attempt to develop a regular flow of information between the two countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Death At the Doorstep | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...that moviemakers and the military do business together. The combination of Top Gun's box-office success and America's current mood of gung-ho patriotism has sent studios scrambling to produce war movies: the Pentagon is currently reviewing more than 200 screenplays. Says Los Angeles- based Navy Liaison Officer Sandra Stairs: "I've seen ten times more scripts now than in the previous two years." Each of the four services, as well as the Coast Guard, maintains a liaison office in Los Angeles to handle requests for everything from old uniforms to tanks. The Pentagon, says Donald Baruch, special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon Goes Hollywood | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...Peres, then Israel's Prime Minister, that they thought a swap of arms for U.S. hostages could be arranged. Peres presumably communicated that information promptly to Ronald Reagan. The story in Jerusalem is that the White House designated Poindexter to look into the idea, and he named North as liaison with Israel. In any case, the Israeli businessmen were authorized by Peres to resume contacts and strike a deal with the Iranians. The executives turned to Adnan Khashoggi, a famed Saudi Arabian wheeler-dealer and an extremely wealthy businessman. He got a long shopping list from Tehran that included Hawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. and Iran | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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