Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan's former national security adviser refused yesterday to give Congress details of the secret sale of weapons to Iran or the diversion of profits to Nicaraguan rebels. Meanwhile, Vice President George Bush conceded that the spiraling controversy has harmed the administration, saying, "Clearly mistakes were made...
While the administration awaited appointment ofan independent counsel to investigate theonce-secret arms sale to Iran and the funneling ofprofits through a Swiss bank account to Nicaraguanforces, Senate leaders appeared headed forcreation of a single "supercommittee" to conductits own probe...
...secret plan to finance the Contras throughthe Iranian arms sales seems to have backfired,leaving the future of U.S. support for the Contrasin jeopardy, professors said...
That this should be happening now is not without its irony. The need for a new covert channel is hardly obvious in an administration that has mounted large numbers of secret schemes under CIA auspices. The development is ironic in another sense, as this NSC staff has been widely faulted for not meeting its primary responsibility of effective policy coordination...
...under the chairmanship of former Senator John Tower would be wise to eschew endorsing such steps. Although responsibility for covert operations properly belongs in normal intelligence channels, formal constraints on the activities of presidental staff could set an undesirable precedent. More important, legislation might have the effect of restricting secret diplomatic efforts that in some circumstances would be in the nation's interest...