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...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), Deputy CIA Director John McMahon, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz. No written intelligence "finding" justifying this circumvention of the U.S. embargo on weapons to Iran was prepared. Attorney General Edwin Meese said last month that Reagan had learned of the Israeli shipment only after the fact; White House Spokesman Larry Speakes last week amended that to say, in effect, that Reagan...
...faced with anger, Shultz disclosed at a public congressional hearing that U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon John Kelly had bypassed the Secretary of State to conduct negotiations for the release of American hostages with, in Kelly's words, "arms to Iran as an inducement." Kelly had reported his results only to the White House, through a CIA "privacy" channel. Sources close to Kelly reveal that McFarlane, in a briefing in Washington, explicitly instructed the ambassador not to discuss the arms-hostages talks with the State Department. McFarlane in public testimony denied giving Kelly any instructions...
Nonetheless, the House Foreign Affairs Committee opened the first public -- indeed, televised -- hearings into the affair. The first witness was Shultz, who stressed what he did not know. The Secretary of State said he considered the diversion of funds to the contras "illegal" -- he was the first Administration official to make such a flat statement -- but asserted that his own role in it was "zero." He confirmed his opposition to the Israeli transfers of arms to Iran in 1985, but contended he was told little or nothing of the direct U.S. sales this year. Though the President signed an intelligence...
Sources familiar with Kelly's version of events say that in the briefing Kelly asked McFarlane whether Shultz knew about the arms-hostages talks. McFarlane is said to have replied, "The Secretary is fully informed, but he is completely and totally against it." McFarlane supposedly then instructed Kelly to communicate with no one in the State Department, including Shultz, but to deal directly with the White House...
...Shultz had opposed the Iranian purchases in private conversations with President Reagan. He told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on December 8 he was "shocked" to learn Kelly had bypassed department channels and instead dealt through a Central Intelligence Agency back channel...