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The Iran-Contra Affair - Online Term Paper

The Iran-Contra Affair

The tangled U.S. foreign-policy scandal known as the Iran-contra
affair came to light in November 1986 when President Ronald Reagan said yes
to reports that the United States had secretly sold arms to Iran. He said
that the goal was to improve relations with Iran, not to get releases of
U.S. hostages held in the Middle East by terrorists (although he later
agreed that the arrangement had in fact turned into an arms-for-hostages
swap). People spoke out against dealings with the hostile Iranian
government all over the place. Later in November, Att. Gen. Edwin Meese
discovered that some of the arms profits had been used to aid the
Nicaraguan "contra" rebels at a time when Congress had ...

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March 4, Reagan accepted the reports judgement without serious disagreement.

Select committees of the Senate (11 members chaired by Democrat
Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii) and the house of representatives (15 members,
headed by another Democrat, Lee Hamilton of Indiana) conducted televised
hearings in partnership from May to August. They heard evidence that a few
members of the NSC staff set Iran and Nicaragua policies and carried them
out with secret private operatives and that the contras received only a
small part of the money. Former national security advisor John Poindexter
stated that he personally authorized the diversion of money and withheld
that information from the president. William J. Casey, the director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, who died in May 1989, was implicated in some
testimony. His testomony still remained in doubt. Clearly however, the
strange events shook the nation's faith in President Reagan and ruined U. S.
prestige abroad. Special ...

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Added: 1/8/2005 02:41:41 AM
Category: American History
Type: Premium Paper
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