George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

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  1. Testimony of Donald P. Gregg, pp. 72-73 in Stenographic Transcript of Hearings Before the U.S. Senate
    Committee on Foreign Relations, Nomination Hearing for Donald Phinney Gregg to be Ambassador to the
    Republic of Korea. Washington, D.C., May 12, 1989 (hereinafter identified as `` Gregg Hearings ''). This
    transcript is available for reading at the office of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in the
    Capitol, Washington, D.C. See also Felix Rodriguez and John Weisman, Shadow Warrior (New York:
    Simon and Schuster, 1989), pp. 213-14. The book was ghost written--and spook-approved--by the CIA and
    Donald Gregg before publication.

  2. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran Contra Affair (hereinafter identified as
    the `` Iran-Contra Report ''), published jointly by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to
    Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, and the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Secret Military
    Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, Nov. 17, 1987, Washington, D.C., pp. 395-97. Note that
    different sections of the Congressional Iran-Contra Report were published on different dates.

  3. CovertAction, No. 33, Winter 1990, p. 12; drawn from Public Testimony of Fawn Hall, Iran-Contra
    Report, June 8, 1987, p. 15.^

  4. Memoranda and meetings of March 1983, in the National Security Archive '' Iran-Contra Collection on microfiche at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Reading Room (hereinafter identified as Iran-Contra
    Collection '').

  5. Don Gregg Memorandum for Bud McFarlane, March 17, 1983, stamped SECRET, since declassified.
    Document no. 77 in the Iran- Contra Collection; on the memo is a handwritten note from Bud '' [McFarlane] to Ollie '' [North]. See also Gregg Hearings, pp. 54- 55.^

  6. Rodriguez and Weisman, op. cit., p. 119.

  7. Shultz Memorandum, May 25, 1983 and White House reply, both stamped SECRET/SENSITIVE.
    Documents beginning no. 00107 in the Iran- Contra Collection.

  8. De Graffenreid Memorandum for Admiral Murphy, July 12, 1983, since declassified, bearing the no.

  9. Document no. 00137 in the Iran-Contra Collection.

  10. Constantine C. Menges, Inside the National Security Council (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988),
    pp. 70-78.

  11. Chronology supplied by the Office of the Vice President, cited in The Progressive, May 18, 1987,
    London, England, p. 20.

  12. Rodriguez and Weisman, op. cit., p. 221.; CovertAction, No. 33, Winter 1990, p. 13, citing Testimony
    of Oliver North; Iran-Contra Report (June 8, 1987), pp. 643, 732-33.

  13. This section is based on 1) literature supplied by CSA, Inc. and its subsidiary ANV, and 2) an
    exhaustive examination of CSA/ANV in Jupiter and other locations, including interviews with personnel
    employed by the company, and with military and CIA personnel who have worked with the company.

  14. Scott Armstrong, Executive Editor for The National Security Archive, The Chronology: The
    Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras (New York:
    Warner Books, 1987), p. 55. Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott and Jane Hunter, The Iran-Contra
    Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (Boston: South End Press, 1987), pp.
    219- 20.

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