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...Jerusalem when Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres was awakened by a telephone call from California. For the next hour he and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz discussed how to extricate the Israeli government from an ever thickening diplomatic quagmire. For ten days the Peres Cabinet had sidestepped the implications of the arrest in Washington of Jonathan Pollard, a Navy counterintelligence analyst, on charges of selling top-secret information to Israel. Even as details of Peres' internal investigation of the affair began leaking to the press, the Prime Minister stubbornly refused to comment on the case. When Shultz placed...
Secretary Shultz was quick to applaud Peres' qualified apology. "We are satisfied," he said. Shultz later announced that a team of American investigators would travel to Israel this week to interview officials implicated in the case. "We have every reason to believe the issues involved will be resolved satisfactorily," he said. "We expect these matters to go forward expeditiously and completely." Not everyone in the Reagan Administration was so sanguine. "The apology went a long way to meeting the concerns," said a high-ranking Administration official, "but we await the results." A top intelligence officer expressed skepticism of the State...
McFarlane soon found the task frustrating. After getting along well at first with Secretary of State George Shultz, a rift developed over McFarlane's growing assertiveness in pub- lic appearances. McFarlane confided to intimates that he thought CIA Director William Casey had outstayed his usefulness and that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was not adroit at anything other than advocating defense spending. He is known to have told friends that he was getting tired of "trying to move all these elephants around...
...part of a deal worked out in a lengthy telephone exchange last weekend between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the documents are to be returned to the United States and the FBI will be permitted to interview two Israeli diplomats recalled in the scandal...
...prospect," said McFarlane last Friday, "that from Geneva there can come not a signed, sealed, delivered agreement, but a commitment on both sides to reductions and to a process of dialogue with regard to defensive systems that would truly be a watershed." In order to continue such a dialogue, Shultz will try to set up another summit for next year while he is in Moscow this week. His attempt may fail, because Moscow has stressed that there must first be some specific progress at the summit, before an ongoing process can be instituted...