How "Iran" and "Contra" came to be said in the same breath ... Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh investigated the affair for the next eight years. Fourteen people were charged with either ...

Both characterisations, wrote Mr Will, are too kind. The Iran-Contra affair was not, he wrote, an aberration – it was a policy of the same pattern as the Daniloff debacle, and the Iceland summit ...

Abrams was pardoned over his role in the infamous Iran-Contra affair, but many haven't forgotten Given Abrams' convoluted, controversial background in Latin America and world affairs more ...

Arguably the messiest, most explosive political scandal of the 1980s, the Iran-Contra affair was such a PR blunder for the U.S. government that Reagan was forced to take full responsibility for it ...

Cover Up: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair explores more than a few unsettling chapters in the history of U.S. covert foreign policy. The film explores a tale of politics, drugs, hostages ...

as well as at least one bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut.The policy humiliations of the Iran-Contra affair stemmed directly from the attempts of senior U.S. officials to gain the release of U ...

This authority has led to controversial decisions, including reprieves for the likes of President Richard Nixon, officials implicated in the Iran-Contra affair and disgraced commodities trader ...

Consider the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s, when senior US officials conspired to sell weapons to Iran – then under an arms embargo – and channel the proceeds to rebels trying to oust ...