Download or read book Iran Contra Connection written by Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This explosive book lays bare the personalities and institutional relations behind the headlines. It goes beyond the recent events to discern the roots of contemporary U.S. covert activity within the past two decades. The Iran-Contra Connection delves in to the details of CIA and extra-CIA operations, including drug-trafficking, gun-running, government-toppling, and assassination. The Iran-Contra scandal is not merely a plan gone awry, the authors argue, but a consistent outgrowth of a long tradition of U.S. covert activity- from the Bay of Pigs invasion teams to the NSC organizational team; from the CIA and the World Anti-Communist League to the Israeli connection and the State Department.
Download or read book Iran United States Sales of Arms and the Contra Connection written by Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foreign Policy Implications of Arms Sales to Iran and the Contra Connection written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iran Contra Investigation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran Contra Matters Investigations and prosecutions written by Lawrence E. Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the congressional committees investigating the Iran Contra Affair written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iran Contra Investigation written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iran Contra investigation written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foreign Policy Implications of Arms Sales to Iran and the Contra Connection written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iran Contra Puzzle written by and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iran Contra written by Lawrence E. Walsh and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran Contra Affair written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iran Contra Scandal written by Marlowe G Blake and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Riveting Account of the Secret arms-for-hostages deal that Shook American Politics The Iran-Contra Scandal was a covert operation that was carried out by the government of the United States of America during the 1980s. There were two clandestine actions involved in this scheme: the first was the sale of weaponry to Iran, which was subject to an arms embargo; the second was the use of the revenues to pay the Contras, a rebel group in Nicaragua. When a newspaper in Lebanon published an article in November 1986, it showed that the United States had been providing arms to Iran covertly. This was the beginning of the controversy. Because Iran was seen as a sworn adversary of the United States at the time, and because it was against the law for the United States to transfer weaponry to Iran, this discovery came as a complete surprise. As the inquiry progressed, it became clear that the funds from the sale of weaponry were being transferred to the Contras, who were engaged in a struggle against the communist government of Nicaragua. This was especially contentious due to the fact that Congress had expressly prohibited the use of federal funding to provide support to the Contras organizations. A pattern of dishonesty and criminal action at the highest levels of government was exposed as a result of the scandal, which caused the Reagan administration to be shaken significantly. A number of officials were indicted and found guilty, although the majority of them were eventually granted pardons. Concerns were also raised regarding the scope of presidential authority and the supervision of covert activities as a result of the affair involving Iran and Contra. Despite the violation of laws and the damage to Reagan's reputation caused by the Iran-Contra affair, his popularity eventually recovered. In 1989, he concluded his term with the most favorable public opinion rating among any presidents since Franklin Roosevelt.
Download or read book Dark Alliance written by Gary Webb and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Motion Picture based on Dark Alliance and starring Jeremy Renner, "Kill the Messenger," to be be released in Fall 2014 In August 1996, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stunned the world with a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News reporting the results of his year-long investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in America, specifically in Los Angeles. The series, titled “Dark Alliance,” revealed that for the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to Los Angeles street gangs and funneled millions in drug profits to the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras. Gary Webb pushed his investigation even further in his book, Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Drawing from then newly declassified documents, undercover DEA audio and videotapes that had never been publicly released, federal court testimony, and interviews, Webb demonstrates how our government knowingly allowed massive amounts of drugs and money to change hands at the expense of our communities. Webb’s own stranger-than-fiction experience is also woven into the book. His excoriation by the media—not because of any wrongdoing on his part, but by an insidious process of innuendo and suggestion that in effect blamed Webb for the implications of the story—had been all but predicted. Webb was warned off doing a CIA expose by a former Associated Press journalist who lost his job when, years before, he had stumbled onto the germ of the “Dark Alliance” story. And though Internal investigations by both the CIA and the Justice Department eventually vindicated Webb, he had by then been pushed out of the Mercury News and gone to work for the California State Legislature Task Force on Government Oversight. He died in 2004.
Download or read book Iran Contra written by Malcolm Byrne and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms to “Contra” guerrillas, exposing a tightly held U.S. clandestine program. A month later, reports surfaced that Washington had been covertly selling arms to Iran (our sworn enemy and a state sponsor of terrorism), in exchange for help freeing hostages in Beirut. The profits, it turned out, were going to support the Contras, despite an explicit ban by Congress. In the firestorm that erupted, shocking details emerged, raising the prospect of impeachment, and the American public confronted a scandal as momentous as it was confusing. At its center was President Ronald Reagan amid a swirl of questions about illegal wars, consorting with terrorists, and the abuse of presidential power. Yet, despite the enormity of the issues, the affair dropped from the public radar due to media overkill, years of legal wrangling, and a vigorous campaign to forestall another Watergate. As a result, many Americans failed to grasp the scandal’s full import. Through exhaustive use of declassified documents, previously unavailable investigative materials, and wide-ranging interviews, Malcolm Byrne revisits this largely forgotten and misrepresented episode. Placing the events in their historical and political context (notably the Cold War and a sharp partisan domestic divide), he explores what made the affair possible and meticulously relates how it unfolded—including clarifying minor myths about cakes, keys, bibles, diversion memos, and shredding parties. Iran-Contra demonstrates that, far from being a “junta” against the president, the affair could not have occurred without awareness and approval at the very top of the U.S. government. Byrne reveals an unmistakable pattern of dubious behavior—including potentially illegal conduct by the president, vice president, the secretaries of state and defense, the CIA director and others—that formed the true core of the scandal. Given the lack of meaningful consequences for those involved, the volume raises critical questions about the ability of our current system of checks and balances to address presidential abuses of power, and about the possibility of similar outbreaks in the future.
Download or read book Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran Contra Affair written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Twilight War written by David Crist and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important and timely book that should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States and Iran went from close allies to enduring enemies." -The Washington Post "Deserves a spot on the short list of must-read books on United States-Iran relations." -The New York Times The dramatic secret history of the undeclared, ongoing war between the U.S. and Iran. The United States and Iran have been engaged in an unacknowledged secret war since the 1970s. This conflict has frustrated multiple American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations to the brink of open warfare. Drawing upon unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several U.S. administrations, David Crist, a senior historian in the federal government, breaks new ground on virtually every page of The Twilight War. From the Iranian Revolution to secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11, from Iran’s nuclear program to the secretive and deadly role of Qasem Soleimani, Crist brings vital new depth to our understanding of “the Iran problem”—and what the future of this tense relationship may bring.
