November 20: Iran Contra and Terror in the 1980s

Read:

· Seventies, 218-229

· My outline on Iran-Contra

· Iran/Contra and CIA’s involvement with drug runners

· Excerpt from Gibson Warrior Dreams: (Paramilitarism as State Policy in the Reagan-Bush Era)

· Begin reading Golko, introduction

(We are slightly off the syllabus again because of my mistake on the former date; having extended, inadvertently, the date for completion of Mollie’s job)

Recommended

NSA statement to Congressional inquiry into alleged CIA drug trade in involvement in south central LA

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/pktstmny.htm

· Iran Hostage Timeline http://www.decades.com/Timeline/16_0_2079.htm

· Final Report on Iran/Contra http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/

· Conclusions of Walsh report http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/part_xi.htm

· Document summaries from National security archives (Iran-Iraq) (20 years after the hostages)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21/index.html http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21/

· Iran-Contra chronology http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chron.htm

· Review: outline of Lawrence Walsh Summary http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/

· Browse: The Flow of Funds http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/part_v.htm

· Read: excerpts of Chapter 27 and Chapter 28, Ronald Reagan and George Bush in Iran-Contra,

· Browse, to seehow they are implicated:

o (Reagan) http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_27.htm

o (Bush) http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_28.htm

· Contras, gangs and crack and press coverage

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_1987.html

· The Old Man and Iran Contra—understanding why the media and Congress covered up the scope of things

· Reagan Press Conference on Nicaragua

· Nicaragua:The Making of U.S. Foreign Policy

· Nicaragua 1981-1990 Destabilization in slow motion-- Excerpts from Bill Blum’s book

· Psychological Operation in Nicaragua –and the implications for our post-9/11 world—

former CIA director William Colby: "the Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any major significance in the major media."

· Terrorist Training, American Style (on the School of the Americas, established by the U.S. and training ground for Latin-‘American military

· Training Terrorists in Florida (story is about mid-way down in the page)

· Middle East, Iran-- http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Sept_11_2001/ConsequencesEmpire_MEast.html

· CIA and death squads and Red Herring of Left Wing Terrorism

o 2nd and 3rd stories on page http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_1984.html

§ · Terrorism Watch http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Terrorism/Terrorism_watch.html

§ · Otto Reich and covert propaganda http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/

· 1986 top censored stories : CIA and media coverage of Contras

§ http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CensoredNews_1986.html

· Reagan and Iran Contra http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Iran_Contra_Connection.html

· Otto Reich’s background – he is official in Bush administration – see my outline. See http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/

for documents which show how proud Otto Reich was of propaganda that was based on lies (Interestingly, this was done with the assistance of White House Communications Director Pat Buchanon, who it might be recalled had planted untrue stories about Martin Luther King for the FBI in an earlier era.

· http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/05/vest-j-05-25.html has an excellent summary of Otto Reich’s history

Elliot Abrams appointment in historical perspective http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zeroes/Elliot_Abrams.html