Political Warfare Timeline 1985

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

May

July

August

September

  • 14 - Second shipment of TOW missiles to Iran.[4]

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.[5]

December

  • 5 - Reagan signs a presidential finding, retroactively authorising the Hawk shipment.[6]
  • 23 - William Casey writes a letter warning Reagan that Ghorbanifar may be unreliable but suggesting he is the best chance of releasing hostages.[7]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.37.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.38.
  3. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.5.
  4. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.5.
  5. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, pp.5-6.
  6. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.12.
  7. Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up, W.W. Norton, 1997, p.43.