Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American captured by the Sandinistas after his C-123K cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua on Oct. 5, had performed similar work as a CIA "cargo kicker" over Laos during the Viet Nam War. A more significant connection is George Cave, who was a young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served in Tehran as deputy CIA station chief, and the Shah took a personal liking to the suave agent who spoke fluent Farsi. Cave retired from...
...Before undertaking his mission to Tehran in May 1986, McFarlane, by then out of the Government but acting as a presidential emissary, went to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and received a briefing and a four-page set of negotiating instructions, a source who was involved recounts. That indicates far greater CIA participation in U.S. negotiations with Iran than has yet been acknowledged...
...North at one point told McFarlane that the diversion of funds to the contras had been approved by his superiors, according to a person familiar with the operation. North accompanied McFarlane on his May mission to Tehran. In Israel after the mission, North attempted to cheer up a despondent McFarlane by telling him that there was some good news: "We" had diverted money from the arms sales to the contras. On Nov. 25, when Attorney General Meese identified McFarlane as one who knew about the siphoning, McFarlane drafted a public statement saying, "I took it to have been a matter...
...would be no more arms sales to Iran, but the Secretary was not satisfied. Just before the NSC met, he dispatched Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead to testify at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Whitehead directly contradicted Reagan's repeated assertions that U.S. contacts with Tehran had caused Iran to moderate its support of terrorism. Said Whitehead: "I don't like to differ with my President, but I believe there is still some continuing evidence of Iranian involvement in terrorism." One U.S. official considered Whitehead's testimony "tantamount to a declaration...
...Shultz won the war. At the NSC meeting Reagan agreed to give the Secretary of State full control of future Iranian policy. It was more a symbolic than a practical victory. Since arms sales have been ended and Shultz is not eager to resume diplomatic contacts with Tehran, even supposing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini would allow any, there is no longer much of an Iranian policy to be in charge of. The State Department nonetheless exultantly trumpeted its triumph and announced that Shultz now planned to stay in office until the "end of the Administration." Well, maybe: the Secretary is still...