Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late July, two months after the McFarlane mission, Father Lawrence Jenco was released, and the arms trade was revived. In August another shipment of 500 TOWs and Hawks was sent from Texas to Tel Aviv and on to Tehran, and the White House told the State Department to expect the release of several more hostages. In the fall three more Americans in Beirut were kidnaped. In October, the U.S. sent yet another arms shipment to Iran; less than a month later, Hostage David Jacobsen was released. But only a few days before his release, a Lebanese Arabic journal, Al Shiraa...
After returning home, he worked on policy and planning at Marine headquarters. During the aborted 1980 mission to free the U.S. hostages in Tehran, North led a detachment of Marines who were poised in Turkey to assist the rescuers. A year later, while studying at the Naval War College in Providence, he came to the attention of Navy Secretary John Lehman because of a paper he wrote extolling the modern military uses of the battleship. Lehman pushed North onto the NSC staff, where he quickly became known as an ardent Reaganite. He was an obsessive worker; starting...
Everyone's second favorite suffix, -scam, as in Abscam, has also had a heavy workout (Iranscam, or the rather infelicitous NSCam), as have various "connections" (the Contra Connection, the Swiss Connection, the Tehran Connection). More whimsical designations usually focus on the scandal's most intriguing character: Ollie's Follies, Oliver's Twist, Cuckoo Iran and Ollie, and even (for fans of '50s rock 'n' roll) the Buddy-Ollie Story. Reagan's foes have played the name game with partisan glee: Dutch's Clutch, Gippergate, Iranaround, Iranoutaluck . . . well, you get the idea...
...director of Central Intelligence, Casey has known of the Iran arms initiative at least since the NSC proposed the idea in June 1985. On Jan. 17, when Ronald Reagan signed a secret Executive Order lifting the ban on arms shipments to Tehran, the CIA officially became the middleman for the weapons sales. Casey reportedly told congressional investigators that his agency had set up a Swiss bank account to receive Iranian payments, but insisted he had no knowledge of where the money was going. Meese asserted at last week's press conference that Casey had no prior knowledge of the contra...
...Secretary of Defense learned of the Iran initiative in June 1985, when the NSC suggested that "allies and friends" could supply arms to the Tehran regime. He opposed the idea, calling it "absurd." But when President Reagan authorized arms sales to Iran in January 1986, Weinberger instructed the Army to cooperate by making available the weapons requested by the CIA. First, however, he insisted on access to all intelligence relating to the operation. Weinberger continued to complain privately about the initiative, but -- unlike Secretary of State George Shultz -- never made his objections public. Like most other members of Reagan...