Global Research Newsletter re Iran Contra Affair (Quote)

For the full newsletter of Global Research re Iran Contra Affair go to their website situated below-teddybear Rethinking Iran-Contra: A Much Darker Story? The Iran-Contra/ October Surprise was the missing link in a larger American political narrative By Robert Parry

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19992

Global Research, July 1, 2010

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The conventional view of the Iran-Contra scandal is that it covered the period 1985-86, when President Ronald Reagan became concerned about the fate of American hostages in Lebanon and agreed to secretly sell weapons to Iran’s Islamist government to gain its help in freeing the captives.