Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Secord had a bird's-eye view of the entire affair. As president of a company selling arms around the world, the retired two-star general provided aircraft and crews to ship weapons to Iran, accompanied former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on his secret mission to Tehran, purchased short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for the contras and was in charge of coordinating munitions drops for the rebels...
...Viet Nam, he was attached to a CIA force in Thailand to supervise flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic equipment to the Shah's secret police...
...have a way to trace the money from Tehran" to the rebels, said one source, who asked not to be identified by name...
...traveled 380,000 miles with the peripatetic Henry Kissinger. Van Voorst was rudely reminded of his former world of intrigue in 1979, shortly after he joined TIME, when he covered the Ayatullah Khomeini's rise to power. He found himself under surveillance from mysterious cars parked outside TIME's Tehran office, and was visited by agents who ransacked the bureau...
...Paris incident, but it accused Iran of "recruitment of certain elements among our people abroad to execute acts prohibited by international law." In fact relations between the two countries were already frayed. Irked by Iranian charges that the former French protectorate remains too westernized, Tunis closed down its Tehran embassy six years...