Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (Boston: South End
Press, 1987), pp. 219- 20.
National Security Planning Group Meeting Minutes, June 25, 1984, pp. 1 and 14, photostats
reproduced in EIR Special Report: `` American Leviathan: Administrative Fascism under the Bush
Regime '' (Wiesbaden, Germany: Executive Intelligence Review Nachrichtenagentur, April 1990),
p. 159.
This is an excerpt from Section 8066 of Public Law 98-473, the Continuing Appropriations Act
for Fiscal Year 1985; Iran-Contra Report, Nov. 13, 1987, p. 398l.
Armstrong, op. cStreet Journal 11/2/84, Washington Post 8/15/85, New York Times 12/23/87. Armstrong, op. cit., Nov. 1, 1984 entry, p. 70, citing Miami Herald 11/2/84 and 11/3/84, Wallit., (^)
Nov. 10, 1983 entry, p. 42, citing corporate records of the Florida secretary of state 7/14/86, Miami
Herald 11/2/84, New York Times 11/3/84.
Rodri157-58. guez and Weisman, op. cit., pp. 220-21; EIR Special Report: `` American Leviathan, '' pp.
Report of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations of the
Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, December 1988, pp. 61-62.
Rodriguez and Weisman, op. cit., pp. 221-22.
Ibid., pp. 224- 25.
General Gorman `` eyes only '' cable to Pickering and Steele, Feb. 14, 1985. Pdeclassified and released on July 30, 1987 by the National Security Council, bearing no. Dartially (^) 23179.
Document no. 00833 in the Iran-Contra Collection. See also Rodriguez and Weisman, op. cit., pp.
225-26.
U.S. government stipulations in the trial of Oliver North, reproduced in EIR Special Report: ``Irangate..., '' pp. 20, 22.
Gregg Hearings, p. 99.
Rodriguez and Weisman, op. cit., p. 227. Gregg Hearings, New York Times, Dec. 13, 1986.
CovertAction, No. 33, Winter 1990, pp. 13-14. On Amiram Nir, see Armstrong, op. cit., pp.
225-26, citing Wall Street Journal 12/22/86, New York Times 1/12/87. On Poindexter and North,
see Menges,op. cit., p. 264.
Armstrong, op. cit., pp. 140-41, citing Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, `` Report on
Preliminary Inquiry, '' Jan. 29, 1987.
Rodriguez and Weisman, op. cit., pp. 239-41.
Oliver North's diary, since edited and partially declassified, entries for `` 10 Sep 85. '' Document
no. 01527 in the Iran-Contra Collection.
Washington Post, June 10, 1990.