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Indeed, there was much that Shultz had not been told. Some examples...
...White House meeting on Dec. 7, 1985, Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger argued strenuously against a plan to sell arms to Iran as a gesture of "good faith" in getting hostages released and initiating a broader dialogue. Shultz thought he and Weinberger had squelched the idea. Neither Cabinet officer was told by the President that just two days previously he had signed a finding giving retroactive approval to U.S. participation in three earlier arms sales involving Israel, deals of which Shultz was unaware...
...similar top-level meeting on Jan. 7, 1986, Shultz and Weinberger repeated their opposition to the arms sales. Shultz was still unaware that there had been any. "It almost seemed unreal," he recalled. "I couldn't believe that people would want to do this . . . I went away puzzled and distressed." While Shultz thought Reagan was leaning toward such sales, he again was not told that the President just a day earlier had signed a new finding authorizing future direct U.S. arms sales to Iran. Shultz would not learn of these sales until the story broke the following November...
...Only after the fact did Shultz learn that former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and North had traveled to Tehran in May 1986 in a vain effort to free all U.S. hostages. Even then, Shultz was not told that missile parts had been part of the aborted bargain...
...Casey and Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost worked out an agreement under which U.S. contacts with a "second channel" (a relative of a high-ranking Iranian official) would be used only for intelligence gathering and State Department officials rather than CIA operatives would conduct the conversations. Without telling Shultz or his deputies, Casey then went through Chief of Staff Don Regan to get the President to let the CIA retain an operational role in any policy toward Iran. Shultz termed this move "deceptive...