New report suggests Israel linked to Irangate scandal

[Scurrilous]

New revelations published on 25th anniversary of Iran-Contra affair say Israel played secondary part in the scandal which rocked DC in 1986. 'Washing the transaction through Israel wouldn't make it legal,' President Reagan was told

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4153240,00.html

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"New documents regarding the Iran–Contra affair revealed a possible Israeli link to the political scandal that rocked Washington in 1986.

The report was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from the National Security Archive, on the 25th anniversary of the affair, which saw accusations that the Reagan Administration secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran – the subject of an arms embargo under the US Arms Export Control Act (AECA).

The report notes that several top officials in the Reagan Administration believed that the administration's failure to alert Congress that some of its covert operations were in violation of the AECA were illegal and prosecutable.

Minutes from a meeting held in December 1985 recorded then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger as telling President Ronald Reagan that "washing the transaction through Israel wouldn't make it legal."