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A Review Of Lawrence E. Walsh’s Iran/Contra - Term Papers

A Review Of Lawrence E. Walsh’s Iran/Contra

Lawrence E. Walsh’s Iran/Contra is written in a simple, yet hard to understand style. This book is an appropriate reference for the professional with an interest in one of the most publicized executive blunders and gross abuse of power since Watergate that has happened in the past 50 years. It provides a detailed glimpse of the organization, sustainment, and downfall of a president’s personal agenda. Lawrence Walsh clearly shows how the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence, and National Security advisors skirted the laws and blatantly tried to mislead congress and the American people. This book will give the reader ...

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Since Iran/Contra he has since gone on and wrote several more books on varying subjects. As the Independent Counsel investigating Iran/Contra, Walsh comes up with two distinct issues that Iran/Contra revolved around.
Two secret Reagan Administration policies that were coordinated by the National Security Council staff created the beginnings of Iran/Contra. The Iran operation involved efforts in 1985 and 1986 to obtain the release of Americans held hostage in the Middle East through the sale of U.S. weapons to Iran, eventhough there was an embargo on such sales. The contra operations from 1984 through most of 1986 involved the secret governmental support of contra military and paramilitary activities in Nicaragua. Once again, Walsh says there was congressional prohibition of this support. The two operations became one when funds generated from the sale of weapons to Iran were diverted to support the contra effort in Nicaragua.
The secrecy of these two distinct ...

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Added: 1/19/2007 11:47:17 PM
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