Word: shipments
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WASHINGTON--The former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said yesterday he believes President Reagan gave advance approval to an Israeli arms shipment to Iran in August 1985, and "ought to stick with" that story he reportedly once told investigators but later retraced...
...Shimon Peres last September, Reagan was briefed by Poindexter on an Israeli proposal to ship a "significant quantity" of East bloc weapons to the Nicaraguan rebels. Chief of Staff Regan told the President that if Peres brought up the matter, "just say thanks." The committee found evidence that a shipment was engineered by Secord and Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
...Once the shipments were under way, Ghorbanifar claims, he made 76 trips between Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East to keep the negotiations on track. When McFarlane, North and other American negotiators flew to Iran last May with a planeload of weapons, Ghorbanifar says, he chartered the jet and paid for the group's stay in Tehran. McFarlane says he does not know who paid but assumes the bill was split by the U.S. and Iranian governments. Ghorbanifar also charges that Khashoggi was cut out of several of the deals on orders from McFarlane. The former National Security Adviser...
...main drawback to these shops is that they sometimes charge rates for package delivery that are 40% to 60% higher than those of larger outfits like U.P.S. One reason for the higher rates is that most of the private operations turn the packages over to other carriers for actual shipment...
...Former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Reagan gave prior approval to a shipment of U.S. arms by Israel to Iran in August 1985. That approval came at a White House session on Aug. 6 or 7, a source who was at the meeting told TIME. As part of a plan to help free U.S. hostages, the President authorized McFarlane to tell the Israelis that the U.S. would replace arms they shipped to Iran. Also at the meeting, according to this source: Regan, Poindexter (who, as McFarlane's deputy at that time, took notes...