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The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Spanish: Caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Iran Initiative, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered around arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 to 1986, facilitated by senior officials of the Ronald Reagan administration.
Phan Khôi brought many new ideas to Vietnam, from a new democratic society with respect to human rights and civil rights, to equality for women, to a new trend of poetry. He provided the best spirit to a debate in Bàn thêm về "bút chiến" , which until today is still the foremost valuable lesson the Vietnamese ought to learn.
The United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate formed committees in January 1987 to investigate the Iran–Contra affair. The committees held joint hearings and issued a joint report. The hearings ran from 5 May 1987 to 6 August 1987, and the report was published in November, with a dissenting Minority Report signed by ...
The United States' assistance of the South Vietnamese police together with agreements on intelligence cooperation with the CIA in 1959 produced no data at all. [43] The first long-term operative placed in the North initially sent his handlers a total of twenty-three signals once the CIA started organizing its own missions.
[5] 3 May 1985: Ledeen went a second time to Israel and met with Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres to discuss Iran and weapon transfers. [4] At this time, Ledeen also met with Shlomo Gazit, the former head of Israeli military intelligence, and agreed with him that it was beneficial for Israel and the United States to open a channel with Iran. [5]
At its foundation, the American O/B controversy derived from the appraisal by analysts of a foreign enemy's ability to field combatants. Its wider effect involved a host of issues: the entire war in Southeast Asia and domestic public opinion, the politics of military intelligence and the utility of combat/support formations, presidential electioneering confronting an intelligence estimate ...
U.S. casualties across South Vietnam were 2,169 killed for the entire month of May making it the deadliest month of the entire Vietnam War for U.S. forces, while South Vietnamese losses were 2,054 killed. [9] The US claim that VC/PAVN losses exceeded 24,000 killed and over 2,000 captured. The May Offensive was regarded as a defeat for the PAVN/VC.
The 'Brokers of Death' arms case (officially United States v. Samuel Evans et al [1] [2]) was a US criminal case in the 1980s relating to the attempted shipment of $2.5bn worth of US-made arms to Iran. The Los Angeles Times in 1986 described the case as "the largest arms conspiracy prosecution ever brought by the Justice Department". [3]