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...this year, Reagan held a second full-scale discussion. Shultz and Weinberger again argued strenuously against the arms sales, but they left the conference feeling uncertain that they had swayed an enthusiastic Reagan and his equally gung-ho NSC and CIA advisers. Ten days later the President signed a secret intelligence "finding," thus permitting "occasional" arms transactions with Iran in spite of the continuing embargo. He assigned management of the deals to the CIA and instructed Casey to conceal the project from Congress. At the same time, Reagan ordered that intelligence traffic on the arms shipments be kept from...
...arms sales to Iran in January 1986, Weinberger instructed the Army to cooperate by making available the weapons requested by the CIA. First, however, he insisted on access to all intelligence relating to the operation. Weinberger continued to complain privately about the initiative, but -- unlike Secretary of State George Shultz -- never made his objections public. Like most other members of Reagan's staff, Weinberger claims he did not find out about the contra connection until it was uncovered by Meese's investigation. Aides say that Weinberger had long suspected the contras had a secret source of funds, but since...
Meese chose a select team of three assistants, including Charles Cooper, who assembled and read documents Friday night. On Saturday they began their questioning. The Attorney General called on Secretary of State George Shultz at home and talked with Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director Casey as well. Other investigators questioned Poindexter and his predecessor, Robert McFarlane, who had begun the contacts with Iran. Meese's assistants pored over North's papers in his office from early Saturday morning until late into the evening, then summoned North to Meese's office in the Justice Department on Sunday...
...President had other matters to worry about. He had to cope with an open rebellion by the State Department, the most astonishing example yet of how deeply his Iran policy had split his own Administration. The previous % week, Shultz had won Reagan's grudging announcement that there would be no more arms sales to Iran, but the Secretary was not satisfied. Just before the NSC met, he dispatched Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead to testify at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Whitehead directly contradicted Reagan's repeated assertions that U.S. contacts with Tehran had caused Iran...
...Shultz won the war. At the NSC meeting Reagan agreed to give the Secretary of State full control of future Iranian policy. It was more a symbolic than a practical victory. Since arms sales have been ended and Shultz is not eager to resume diplomatic contacts with Tehran, even supposing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini would allow any, there is no longer much of an Iranian policy to be in charge of. The State Department nonetheless exultantly trumpeted its triumph and announced that Shultz now planned to stay in office until the "end of the Administration." Well, maybe: the Secretary is still...