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WILLIAM CASEY, EX-C.I.A. HEAD, IS DEAD AT 74 - NYTimes.com  May 7, 1987 ... LEAD: William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence until last February, whose role in the Iran-contra affair is under scrutiny in Congress, died of ... less than 24 hours after the first witness in Congressional hearings on the affair named ... 15, the day before he was to testify to a Senate panel about the...
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IranContra affair - Wikipedia  The IranContra affair also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the IranContra scandal, was ... Weinberger wrote that Reagan said "he could answer to charges of illegality but couldn't answer to the charge that 'big ..... On May 6, 1987, William Casey died the day after Congress began its public hearings on IranContra.
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Gates Says He 'Learned Lessons' of Iran-Contra : Intelligence: CIA ...  Sep 17, 1991 ... YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsLegislative Hearings ... He pledged he would resign as director before condoning a policy of ... and honest" actions he took during the Iran-Contra affair. ... leading up to Casey's closed-door testimony before the House and Senate intelligence committees on Nov.
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The Iran-Contra Scandal - Association for Diplomatic Studies and ...  Put simply, Israel would sell weapons from the U.S. to Iran, which had been ... to be the mastermind of the plan, fell ill hours before he would testify. ... He also briefly details how the scandal impacted his dealings with the Lebanese government. ..... TAYLOR: Iran-Contra illustrated the possibility of a CIA director carrying on...
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Iran-Contra Affair - United States History  The role of Iran-Contra Affair in the history of the United States of America. ... Part of the deal was that, in July 1985, the United States would send 508 ... Military aide Marine Lt. Colonel Oliver North, former CIA chief William J. ... The CIA's William J. Casey played a part in the conspiracy, but he died during the hearings.
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Iran Scandal Indictments : Col. North, Adm. Poindexter, Secord ...  North, Adm. Poindexter, Secord, Hakim Charged : Conspiracy to Defraud U.S. Cited. March 16, 1988|Times Wire Services ... Richard V. Secord and his business partner, Albert Hakim--culminated a 14-month grand jury investigation into ... the presidential inquiry into the Iran-Contra affair in November, 1986, and concealing,...
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Edwin Meese III - Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs - The Legal ...  From 1985 through 1988, a period covering both the Iran-Contra Affairs and their public exposure, Edwin Meese III served as the United States attorney general.
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10 Big Fat Lies and the Liars Who Told Them | BillMoyers.com  Jun 27, 2014 ... The Iran-Contra affair broke when it was revealed that the US ... In March 1987, he appeared on television and said: A few months ago I ... What did the Republicans do, deliberately flood the administration with frivolous requests? .... As two long time, and valued members of our community I am sure you...
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The Ron Brown Plane Crash - Did CIA Hawks Assassinate Ron ...  Whenever an American politician dies in a suspicious plane crash, the skeptical and discerning citizen will look first in the direction of the CIA. ... "In the late 1970s, I also participated in the Senate's investigation of the CIA and our ... On April 3, 1996, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others were killed when their Air...
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The Truth About the Valerie Plame Case Finally Emerges  Dec 8, 2011 ... Now that memoirs by the late Bob Novak, former Vice-President ... In July 2003, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson wrote a New York ... Well, Armitage replied, you know his wife works at the CIA, and ... outed a covert CIA agent, revealed his role to his boss Secretary of ..... June 8, 2003 ... July 6, 2003
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Clinton/Bush/Obama BODY COUNT - NewsFollowup.com  NFU has compiled a list of over 300 mysterious deaths solidly linked to Bush, ... to the USS Oriskany, which suffered a major fire on October 27, 1966, that killed 44 ...... determined that its CEO John O. Brennan is retired CIA and Obama advisor. ...... He's now the chairperson and CEO of the MPAA, which has a long history of...
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IranContra affair - Wikipedia  The IranContra affair also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the IranContra scandal, was ..... On the day of McFarlane's resignation, Oliver North, a military aide to the United States ... conducted via the NSC with Admiral Poindexter and his deputy Colonel North, with the ...... Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs.
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Agency of Fear - Chapter Nineteen - Edward Jay Epstein  ... who nominally chaired the new committee, Attorney General John Mitchell, ... Laird, newly appointed Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, and CIA director Richard ... Henry Kissinger's National Security Council also had its doubts about heroin...
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Agency of Fear - Chapter Thirty-One - Edward Jay Epstein  In the case of the Watergate break-in, the CIA could also have plausibly claimed ... than twenty years, and the CIA's technical services division had supplied much of the ... The selection of Gray as acting director after the death of Hoover was ... in the newspapers, President Nixon complained to his counsel John Dean, who...
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Watergate Scandal Timeline - The Authentic History Center  This became especially important to the President in 1972, when he was ... (Hoover then died in May, 1972, and L. Patrick Gray was appointed acting director in his place). .... on behalf of the officials and heads of the Nixon re-election campaign. ... On March 19, 1973, convicted Watergate burglar and ex-CIA agent James...
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CIA Hit List - Omar Torrijos - (Supreme chief of Panama) - Wattpad  Apr 17, 2011 ... Omar Efran Torrijos Herrera (February 13, 1929July 31, 1981) was the ... Soon after the coup, Torrijos was promoted to full colonel and named ... the country to full civilian rule by 1984.[2]. Death. General Torrijos died at ... For instance, in pre-trial hearings in Miami in May 1991, Manuel Noriega's attorney,...
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Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial ...  Mr. Walsh directed his heaviest fire at Mr. Bush over the pardon of Mr. ... Mr. Bush's pardon of Mr. Weinberger and the President's own role in the affair could be related. ... In the inquiry into the entire Iran-contra affair, a number of Government .... Defense Secretary, who operated within the inner circle of Ronald Reagan's...
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IranContra affair - Wikipedia  The IranContra affair also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the IranContra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, ... After the weapon sales were revealed in November 1986, Reagan appeared...
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Harding dies before scandals break - Aug 02, 1923 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Harding dies before scandals break on Aug 02, 1923. ... In a hotel in San Francisco, President Warren G. Harding dies of a stroke at the .... his body is found at the Sleepy Lagoon reservoir, near Los Angeles, California.
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The Words Of Watergate | American History Lives at American ...  By saying presently employed, he carefully distanced the White House from the event that ... Cancer on the Presidency, deep-six, enemies list, executive privilege, ... Now the tapes revealed that he had been told about the plot to obstruct ... in time, testified before the Senate Watergate committee on June 25, 1973, he was...
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IranContra affair - Wikipedia  The IranContra affair also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the IranContra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, .... The Reagan administration's policy towards Nicaragua produced a major...