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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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This is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections.
Collection: Culvahouse, Arthur B.: Files
Folder Title: [Iran/Arms Transaction: Dean
McGrath Files: NSC File Search] (1)
Box: CFOA 1132
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IRAN
IRAQ
FRANCE
ACT/CAO
COBB
D 860709 NOTED
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DOCNUM
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KHARTOUM EMPLOYEE
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SUDAN
TERRORISM
ACT/CAO
MORTON
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LEBANON
FRANCE
SYRIA
IRAN
ACT/CAO
NORTH
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DOCNUM
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DESC
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FRANCE
IRAN
LEBANON
ACT/CAO
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CIA
860731
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DOCNUM
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UPDATE ON HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS
SUBJECT
FRANCE
IRAN
LEBANON
ALGERIA
ACT/CAO
NORTH
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DOCNUM
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FRANCE
LEBANON
IRAN
ACT/CAO
NORTH
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DISTRIB
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CIA
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FIRDB
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DOCNUM
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DESC
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IRAN
ACT/CAO
ROSS
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TAHIR-KHELI
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DOCNUM
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CWDNUM
868445
DESC
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IRAN
ARMS SALES
ACT/CAO
KELLY
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CHAIR
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REFNO
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DOCNUM
312/02500-86
DESC
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CHINA PR
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ARMS SALES
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KELLY
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ROUTING
To
Name and Address
Date
Initials
1
NSC
XXX
2
3
4
5
40405
NSC/ICS CONTROL NO.
6
ACTION
X
FILE
COPY NO.
OF
APPROVAL
INFORMATION
COMMENT
PREPARE REPLY
CONCURRENCE
RECOMMENDATION
DIRECT REPLY
RETURN
DISPATCH
SIGNATURE
REMARKS:
HANDLE VIA SYSTEM IV CHANNEL ONLY
NSC INTELLIGENCE
DOCUMENT
Warning Notice
Intelligence Sources and Methods Involved
NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
Unauthorized Disclosure Subject to Criminal Sanctions
DECLASSIFIED
Sec.3.4(b), E.O. 12958, as amended
White House Guidelines, Sept. 11, 2006
171
BY NARA dh 2 DATE 9/23/14
0 ₽ SECRET/VEIL
DECLASSIFIED
7/22/02
Authority F98-055/1*70 CAS
Finding Pursuant to Section 662 of
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
BY dh NARADATE 9/23/14
As Amended, Concerning Operations
Undertaken by the Central Intelligence
Agency in Foreign Countries, Other Than
Those Intended Solely for the Purpose
of Intelligence Collection
I hereby find that the following operation in a foreign
country (including all support necessary to such operation) is
important to the national security of the United States, and due
to its extreme sensitivity and security risks, I determine it is
essential to limit prior notice, and direct the Director of
Central Intelligence to refrain from reporting this Finding to
the Congress as provided in Section 501 of the National Security
Act of 1947, as amended, until I otherwise direct.
SCOPE
DESCRIPTION
Iran
Assist selected friendly foreign liaison services,
third countries and third parties which have
established relationships with Iranian elements,
groups, and individuals sympathetic to U.S. Government
interests and which do not conduct or support terrorist
actions directed against U.S. persons, property or
interests, for the purpose of: (1) establishing a more
moderate government in Iran, (2) obtaining from them
significant intelligence not otherwise obtainable, to
determine the current Iranian Government's intentions
with respect to its neighbors and with respect to
terrorist acts, and (3) furthering the release of the
American hostages held in Beirut and preventing
additional terrorist acts by these groups. Provide
funds, intelligence, counter-intelligence, training,
guidance and communications and other necessary
assistance to these elements, groups, individuals,
liaison services and third countries in support of
these activities.
The USG will act to facilitate efforts by third parties
and third countries to establish contact with moderate
elements within and outside the Government of Iran by
providing these elements with arms, equipment and
related materiel in order to enhance the credibility of
these elements in their effort to achieve a more
pro-U.S. government in Iran by demonstrating their
ability to obtain requisite resources to defend their
country against Iraq and intervention by the Soviet
Union. This support will be discontinued if the U.S.
Government learns that these elements have abandoned
their goals of moderating their government and
appropriated the materiel for purposes other than that
provided by this Finding.
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Date January 17, 1986
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