1993, ISBN: 156584047X

[PU: The New Press, New York, 1993. ISBN 156584047X.], MILITARY POLITICS USA REAGAN ADMINISTRATION NICARAGUAN CONTRAS IRAN MUNITIONS POLICY DECEPTION COVER-UP COVERT OPERATIONS, Card cove… More...

[PU: The New Press, New York, 1993. ISBN 156584047X.], MILITARY POLITICS USA REAGAN ADMINISTRATION NICARAGUAN CONTRAS IRAN MUNITIONS POLICY DECEPTION COVER-UP COVERT OPERATIONS, Card covers, small quarto, xxxiii/412pp. Light wear to card edges, previous owner's name top of front fep; a very good copy. "On the news at this time is the question of the hostages," then vice president George Bush noted in his secret diary on 5 November 1986, two days after a Lebanese newspaper broke the first story of the Reagan administration's efforts to trade arms for hostages with Iran. "I'm one of the few people that know fully the details," Bush continued. "This is one operation that has been held very, very tight, and I hope it will not leak." But the illicit arms-for-hostages deals did leak, and eventually U.S. citizens discovered that the Reagan administration had been selling munitions to Iran, using funds from those sales for an illicit operation to resupply the Nicaraguan Contras, and systematically deceiving Congress, the press, and the public about these actions. This publication provides the 101 most important documents on the policy decisions, covert operations, and subsequent cover-up that created a most serious U.S. constitutional crisis. This reader features once top secret, code-word White House memoranda, minutes of presidential meetings, pages from Oliver North's and Caspar Weinberger's personal notebooks, back-channel cable traffic, and investigative records, among other extraordinary materials. The editors have provided contextual overviews of the complex components of the Iran-Contra operations, as well as glossaries of the key players, and a detailed chronology of events. Constitutes a singular resource for understanding the Iran-Contra affair and the gravity of the governmental crisis it spawned. The documents give the reader "an intimate sense of how the president and his men manipulated the system and perverted its constitutional character."<