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...social anthropology major spent three months observing the behavior of merchants and consumers in Turkey. She even had to experience the merchant's perspective, as one of her subjects bargained her into selling for two hours in exchange for her sitting in his booth...
...Quincy House resident discovered this during her clerkship in the merchant's booth. "It was so embarassing," she recalls. "Because in our culture, we do not go out on the street and yell at the customer and drag him into the store and talk to him until he buys something, I was not good at this aggressive selling technique...
...FIRST step I made was to put my best foot forward, ideologically-speaking. I hitched a ride with a quasi-legal import-export merchant to Nicaragua and then took an arms freighter to Cuba where I was able to register with the Comintern and buy some identification papers. I was now Rutger Gorbachev, long lost grand-nephew, twice removed, from the Soviet premier. I figured the pull might be useful later...
...Lieut. Colonel Oliver North deliberately bypassed the State Department when he distributed special intelligence reports on Iran to selected Government officials in September 1985. A few months later, however, North provided intelligence reports on the Middle East to Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian merchant who was the middleman for negotiations between the U.S. and the Islamic nation...
McFarlane, however, told the Senators that he did not bring up Ghorbanifar at Bethesda, adding that he did not even learn of the arms merchant's identity until December of that year when he first met him in London. Yet McFarlane did mention Ghorbanifar in a cable to Secretary of State Shultz calling for renewed ties with Iran. The message was sent on June 14, 1985, a month before the Bethesda meeting. McFarlane explains that if he did use Ghorbanifar's name in the cable it was because he thought it was the identity of an aide to Iran...