Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protection and was told the agency could not provide it. He asked his "superiors," who told him that a secure phone could be installed and then expanded into a more elaborate system. This proved "not feasible," North said; he was about to leave on a secret mission to Tehran, a venture so risky that Casey had told him to take along the means to kill himself in the event that he was tortured to divulge secrets. North then mentioned the problem to Secord, who recommended Robinette's services and paid the bill...
North also linked the perils of the Tehran trip to an offer by Secord's partner Albert Hakim to "do something for my family" if he failed to return from Iran. North said he knew that Hakim was wealthy, and he was grateful for his assistance as a translator in the Iran negotiations. That is why, when Willard Zucker, one of Hakim's lawyers, asked Mrs. North to visit him in Philadelphia, the colonel advised her to do so. Hakim had testified that North would be the beneficiary of a $2 million will if both Secord and Hakim were...
...when Betsy North met Zucker, North testified, "there was no money mentioned, no will mentioned, no arrangement." The lawyer just asked about the family. After North returned from Tehran, the lawyer called again and inquired about the name of a family executor. North said he told his wife not to provide it, and they did not hear from the lawyer again...
Alarms went off all over Washington last March when former Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow were charged with espionage. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger proclaimed the case "quite comparable to Iran's actions in seizing our embassy in Tehran." The Reagan Administration, believing that the Marines had allowed KGB agents to plant miniaturized listening devices in the embassy, cut off electronic communications with it and undertook a $100 million program to replace security and communications equipment in Moscow and elsewhere. It seemed that the two key defendants, Sergeant Clayton Lonetree and Corporal Arnold Bracy, who were said...
...Israeli sources, when Syrian Army General Ghazi Kenaan led his troops into Beirut in February, he wanted to curb the power of Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Shi'ite group based in the Lebanese capital that is believed to hold most of the 24 foreign hostages, including nine Americans. But Tehran and Hizballah's spiritual leader, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, intervened, and the group agreed not to take any more captives...