Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Division for the Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsel, Division No. 86-6; Volume I: Investigations and Prosecutions; Volume II: Indictments, Plea Agreements, Interim Reports to the Congress, and Administrative Matters
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Volumes I and II ONLY. Edge tear at front cover of Vol. I. Vol. II rear cover and some back pages have creased corner. Volume I: Investigations and Prosecutions. Volume II: Indictments, Plea Agreements, Interim Reports to the Congress, and Administrative Matters. Two large (approximately 8.25 inches by 11 inches), white bound softcover books. Volumes I and II published on August 4, 1993. Volume I has xxv, [1], 572, [2] pages. Volume II has vii, [1], 785, [5] pages. Footnotes and some exhibits/illustrations. Lawrence Edward Walsh (January 8, 1912 – March 19, 2014) was an American lawyer, a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and United States Deputy Attorney General who was appointed Independent Counsel in December 1986 to investigate the Iran–Contra affair during the Reagan Administration. His investigation led to the convictions of both former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Vice Admiral John Poindexter and former NSC staffer Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, though both convictions were subsequently reversed. Judge Thomas F. Hogan dismissed the October indictment two months later for being outside the statute of limitations. Walsh steadfastly denied that the investigation was politically motivated, while Bush and others criticized it as "the criminalization of policy differences." Walsh later wrote an account of his experiences as counsel, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up. In 2003, Walsh published his autobiography, The Gift of Insecurity: A Lawyer's Life. The Iran–Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited. The scandal began as an operation to free seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by Hezbollah, a paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. It was planned that Israel would ship weapons to Iran, and then the United States would resupply Israel and receive the Israeli payment. The Iranian recipients promised to do everything in their power to achieve the release of the hostages. Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista terrorists, known as Contras, against the socialist government of Nicaragua. Condition: Good / No dust jacket issued.
Keywords: Iran-Contra, Robert McFarlane, Oliver North, John Poindexter, Fawn Hall, Richard Secord, William Casey, Robert Gates, Clair George, Duane Clarridge, George Schultz, Elliott Abrams, Edwin Meese, Caspar Weinberger, Albert Hakim, Richard Armitage, Micha
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