Walsh investigation

The Office of Independent Counsel/Walsh investigation produced four interim reports to Congress. Its final report was published as the Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters.

Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters.

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB567-Iran-Contra-Reagan-Oliver-North-and-Post-Truth-30-years-later/

https://www.archives.gov/legislative/guide/senate/chapter-18-1969-1988.html#18F-2

http://intelligence.senate.gov/pub100thcongress.html

http://intelligence.senate.gov/pub101stcongress.html
https://www.archives.gov/research/investigations/walsh.html
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Lawrence Walsh, appointed Indepedent counsel in December 1986
Firewall : the iran-contra conspiracy and cover-up


As part of the effort to circumvent the Boland Amendment, the NSC established "the Enterprise", an arms-smuggling network headed by a retired U.S. Air Force officer turned arms dealer Richard Secord that supplied arms to the Contras. It was ostensibly a private sector operation, but in fact was controlled by the NSC.[21] To fund "the Enterprise", the Reagan administration was constantly on the look-out for funds that came from outside the U.S. government in order not to explicitly violate the letter of the Boland Amendment, though the efforts to find alternative funding for the Contras violated the spirit of the Boland Amendment.[23] Ironically, military aid to the Contras was reinstated with Congressional consent in October 1986, a month before the scandal broke.[24][25]

The trial

During the trial, North testified that on 21, 22 or 24 November, he witnessed Poindexter destroy what may have been the only signed copy of a presidential covert-action finding that sought to authorize CIA participation in the November 1985 Hawk missile shipment to Iran.[59] U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese admitted on 25 November that profits from weapons sales to Iran were made available to assist the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

The National Security Act of 1947, which created the NSC, gave it the vague right to perform "such other functions and duties related to the intelligence as the National Security Council may from time to time direct."[82]

Bob Woodward, Veil : the secret wars of the CIA 1981–1987

 diversion of funds allotted to the Afghan operation.
   Gust Avrakodos
  Clair George

source:
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
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