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===August===
 
===August===
*'''30''' - Israel ships 96 TOW missiles to Iran through intermediaries including [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]], in a transaction approved by US President [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.5.</ref>
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*'''30''' - Israel ships 96 TOW missiles to Iran through intermediaries including [[Manucher Ghorbanifar]], in a transaction approved by US President [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.5.</ref>
  
 
===September===
 
===September===
*'''14''' - Second shipment of TOW missiles to Iran.<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.5.</ref>
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*'''14''' - Second shipment of TOW missiles to Iran.<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.5.</ref>
  
 
===November===
 
===November===
*'''24''' - 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles delivered to Iran by a [[CIA]] owned proprietary in a shipment arranged by [[Oliver North]]. The Iranians are outraged to discover the missiles are Israeli castoffs.<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran -Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, pp.5-6.</ref>
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*'''24''' - 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles delivered to Iran by a [[CIA]] owned proprietary in a shipment arranged by [[Oliver North]]. The Iranians are outraged to discover the missiles are Israeli castoffs.<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, pp.5-6.</ref>
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===December===
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*'''5''' - Reagan signs a presidential finding, retroactively authorising the Hawk shipment.<ref>Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.12.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 00:24, 1 November 2011

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

August

September

  • 14 - Second shipment of TOW missiles to Iran.[2]

November

  • 24 - 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles delivered to Iran by a CIA owned proprietary in a shipment arranged by Oliver North. The Iranians are outraged to discover the missiles are Israeli castoffs.[3]

December

  • 5 - Reagan signs a presidential finding, retroactively authorising the Hawk shipment.[4]

Notes

  1. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.5.
  2. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.5.
  3. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, pp.5-6.
  4. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.12.