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Reshuffle likely over Iran arms sales scandal (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
US President Ronald Reagan is being urged to change his team of key advisers by Congress, and also by his wife Nancy Reagan following the arms sales to Iran scandal. Report on the likely reshuffles with...
US arms sales to Iran scandal (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Report on scrutiny of President Ronald Reagan after it was revealed profits from USA arms sales to Iran were being secretly channelled to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua without the President’s...
US arms sales to Iran scandal (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Report on the arms sales to Iran scandal as internal investigations begin. Includes US President Ronald Reagan avoiding questions on a Thanksgiving photoshoot with a live turkey; Attorney General Edwin Meese...
US Iran arms deal causes more trouble (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Report on allegations White House Chief of Staff, Donald Regan knew about and OK’d the scheme to sell arms to Iran and use profits to fund Nicuraguan Contra rebels (Irangate scandal or Iran-Contra affair)....
Irangate- Poindexter takes 5th and Bush speaks (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
National Security Adviser Admiral John Poindexter has refused to answer questions in the hearing into the arms sales to Iran/finance for Nicuraguan rebels scandal (Irangate or Iran-Contra affair). His...
Oliver Northâs secretary, Fawn Hall, on shredding secret papers (1987)
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- Interview; News report
Two reports on how secretary Fawn Hall was ordered by Colonel Oliver North to alter and destroy secret documents. Hall tells senators (at a hearing of a joint Congressional committee?) of her feelings about...
Oliver Northâs evidence, Iran-Contra affair: Day 1 (1987)
- Genre
- Speech
Coverage from the first day of Colonel Oliver North’s evidence to the Congressional hearings on the Iran-Contra or Irangate affair. He talks about how he never personally discussed with the President the...
Oliver Northâs evidence, Iran-Contra affair: Day 1 (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the first day of Colonel Oliver North’s evidence to the Congressional hearings on the Irangate or Iran-Contra affair. Includes how he never personally discussed with the President the use of...
Oliver North’s evidence, Iran-Contra affair: Day 2 (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the second day of Colonel Oliver North’s evidence to the Congressional hearings on the Iran-Contra or Irangate affair. Covers the questions he faced, how he deliberately lied in earlier...
Oliver North’s evidence, Iran-Contra affair: Day 3 (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the third day of Oliver North’s evidence to the Congressional hearings on the Iran-Contra affair (Irangate). Covers the shredding of documents, how North was astonished at the attitude of the...