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When these talks were pursued, Shultz insisted on written negotiating instructions that ruled out any arms sales. Yet the State Department's representative at the talks in Frankfurt learned that the Iranians were working from a nine-point plan given to them by Albert Hakim, an American businessman used by Poindexter and North to handle the finances in the arms sales. The points included yet further weapons deals. More shocking, they included U.S. involvement in a scheme to win the release of 17 Al Dawa Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for blowing up a U.S. embassy building there...
...When Shultz heard about this U.S. offer to sell more arms and to help spring the convicted killers, he testified, it "made me sick to my stomach." He got a Sunday-morning appointment with Reagan to tell him about the proposal. Poindexter had testified that Reagan approved the nine points as a bargaining tool. No way, said Shultz. "I have never seen him so mad," said the Secretary. "He's a very genial, pleasant man, he's very easygoing, but his jaw set, and his eyes flashed . . . In that meeting I finally felt that the President deeply understands that something...
Given all the frustrations and rebuffs, why did Shultz not resign? In fact, Shultz testified, he offered to resign on three occasions, none directly related to the Iranian arms deals. The first was in 1983, when McFarlane took a secret trip to the Middle East without informing the State Department. The second was in 1985, after Shultz publicly opposed a plan for widespread lie- detector testing of federal employees, a stand that estranged him from the intelligence community led by Casey. The final attempt came last August, when Shultz ran into White House roadblocks to his travel plans. But Reagan...
...Shultz wound up his testimony, several of the committee's Republicans questioned his actions. "You walked off the field when the score was against you," said Ohio's Republican Congressman Michael DeWine. "You took yourself out of the game . . . Our foreign policy suffered because the two key players, George Shultz and Ronald Reagan, were out of the game." Replied the % Secretary: "That's one man's opinion, and I don't share...
...Shultz rejected suggestions from a few committee Republicans that he should have threatened to resign when his advice on the Iran arms sales was not followed. Snapped Shultz in reply to Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde: "Would you have said that I should have sat there on Dec. 7 in the White House and said, 'Mr. President, I see you're wavering, and if you should decide against me, goodbye'?" He added, "That's not the way to play this game at all. I'm there to help the President, not make his life more difficult...