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10 SOCIALIST ACTION JULY 1987 President Reagan, White House Chief of Staff Edwin Meese, CIA Director William Casey, Robert McFarlane, John Pointexter, and Lt. Col. Oliver North contacted the "Secret Team" to arrange for the illegal sale of weapons to Iran.
As in the past, the deal included manipulation of the price of these weapons in order to arrange for a profit to be used to purchase weapons for the contras. When their secret arrangements were accidentally revealed by a member of the Iranian government, a chain of events began to unfold which exposed an aspect of functioning of the U.S. ruling class which is not often seen.
The materials and resources of the Christic Institute have been made available to every member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Christic Institute attorneys have provided testimony to the various joint Congressional committees established to "investigate" what is called "possible" illegal activities by U.S. government officials.
As of this writing, the public Contragate hearings have been in progress for some six weeks-—and virtually none of the information documented in the Christic Institute suit has been brought to the light of day. This is not surprising.
For the ruling class to disclose this information would be to expose to the world that mass terrorism is at the heart of the policy and practice of those who rule this country. For this reason, the public hearings cannot be expected to accomplish more than to limit the damage (1) The Christic Institute affidavit states that the Kennedy brothers were not briefed on the existence of the "Shooter Team." This is incorrect. Numerous sources, including a Jan. 19, 1971, San Francisco Chronicle. article by Jack Anderson (p. 33) discusses the Kennedy brothers' involvement in authorizing the assassination team against Fidel Castro.
A secret Congressional staff report confirmed that Robert Kennedy had issued a "lettres de marque" [legal sanction] for the assassination team against Castro. ("Affidavit of J.S. (Jack) Martin and David F. (Dave) Lewis, Jr., sworn on March 1, 1968.")
(2) The lawsuit asserts that President Jimmy Carter and CIA Director Stansfield Turner were ignorant of this contract. This seems highly unlikely.
It should be remembered that Carter maintained Richard Helms as his ambassador to Teheran. Helms—who had been CIA director during the Johnson, Ford, and Nixon administrations-presided over Shackley's operations.
Carter, moreover, directed Gen. Heuser, director of NATO, to set up in Teheran the Council of Generals. For six months, Gen. Heuser sought to coordinate a coup in Teheran which had targeted tens of thousands of people for assassination.
In addition, under the Carter administration, the U.S. government and the CIA provided Roberto D'Aubuisson and the Salvadoran death squads with the intelligence files used to finger thousands of their victims. (Source: Allan Nairn, the Progressive, May 1984.)
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