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<strong>The</strong> officials discussed shipment of U.S.-made arms to Iran through Israel--to replenish<br />

Israeli stocks of TOW missiles and to permit Israel to sell arms to Iran.<br />

According to testimony by Robert McFarlane, the transfer was supported by <strong>George</strong><br />

<strong>Bush</strong>, Casey and Donald Regan, and opposed by Shultz and Weinberger.@s2@s8<br />

August 18, 1985:<br />

Luis Posada Carriles escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he was being held for the<br />

terrorist murder of 73 persons. Using forged documents falsely identifying him as a<br />

Venezuelan named `` Ramon Medina, '' Posada flew to Central America. Within a few<br />

weeks, Felix Rodriguez assigned him to supervise the <strong>Bush</strong> office's Contra resupply<br />

operations being run from the El Salvador air base. Posada personally ran the safe-houses<br />

used for the CIA flight crews. Rodriguez explained the arrangement in his book: ``<br />

Because of my relationship with [El Salvador Air Force] Gen. Bustillo, I was able to pave<br />

the way for [the operations attributed to Oliver] North to use the facilities at Ilopango [El<br />

Salvador air force base].... I found someone to manage the Salvadorian-based resupply<br />

operation on a day-to-day basis. <strong>The</strong>y knew that person as Ramon Medina. I knew him<br />

by his real name: Luis Posada Carriles.... I first [sic!] met Posada in 1963 at Fort<br />

Benning, Georgia, where we went through basic training together ... as U.S. Army second<br />

lieutenants.... '' Rodriguez neglects to explain that agent Posada Carilles was originally<br />

recruited and trained by the same CIA murder operation, `` JM/WAVE '' in Miami, as<br />

was Rodriguez himself. Felix continues: `` In the sixties, he reportedly went to work for<br />

DISIP, the Venezuelan intelligence service, and rose to considerable power within its<br />

ranks. It was rumored that he held one of the top half- dozen jobs in the organization....<br />

After the midair bombing of a Cubana airliner on October 6, 1976, in which seventythree<br />

people were killed, Posada was charged with planning the attack and was thrown in<br />

prison.... Posada was confined in prison for more than nine years.... ''@s2@s9<br />

September 10, 1985:<br />

<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong>'s national security adviser, Donald Gregg, met at 4:30 P.M. with Oliver<br />

North and Col. James Steele, the U.S. military official in El Salvador who oversaw flights<br />

of cargo going to the Contras from various points in Central America. <strong>The</strong>y discussed<br />

information given to one or more of them by arms dealer Mario DelAmico, supplier to<br />

the Contras. According to the entry in Oliver North's notebook, they discussed<br />

particularities of the supply flights, and the operations of FDN commander Enrique<br />

Bermudez.<br />

Elsewhere in the diary pages for that day, Colonel North noted that DelAmico had<br />

procured a certain 1,000 munitions items for the Contras.@s3@s0<br />

November 1985 (ca. American Thanksgiving Day):<br />

<strong>George</strong> <strong>Bush</strong> sent Oliver North a note, with thanks for `` your dedication and tireless<br />

work with the hostage thing and with Central America. ''@s3@s1

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