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(3 vols.) Iran-Contra Affair, Joint Congressional Hearings and Report
by U.S. Congress
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Saint Charles, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Priinting Office, 1988. First. Softcover. Near Fine. The Iran-Contra affair, often referred to as the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration. Between 1981 and 1986, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the illegal sale of arms to Iran, who was subjected to an arms embargo at the time. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by legislative appropriations was prohibited by Congress, but the Reagan administration figured out a loophole by secretively using non-appropriated funds instead.
The official justification for the arms shipments was that they were part of an operation to free seven US hostages being held in Lebanon by Hezbollah, an Islamist paramilitary group with Iranian ties connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The idea to exchange arms for hostages was proposed by Manucher Ghorbanifar, an expatriate Iranian arms dealer. Some within the Reagan administration hoped the sales would influence Iran to get Hezbollah to release the hostages.
Two of these volumes document the testimony of Col. Oliver North, the key figure in the scandal, and the third volume ss the chronology of events from the investigation's final report.
All volumes are fine in beige wrappers. There are no marks or damage at all, and all appear unread.
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- Bookseller
- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B199
- Title
- (3 vols.) Iran-Contra Affair, Joint Congressional Hearings and Report
- Author
- U.S. Congress
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- U.S. Government Priinting Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Date Published
- 1988
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