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Sanford said, shamefacedly, `` If Gregg was lying, he was lying to protect the
President, which is different from lying to protect himself. ''[Emphasis
added]@s8@s9
In George Bush's government, the one-party state, the knives soon came out, and the
prizes appeared. The Senate Ethics Committee, including the shamefaced Terry Sanford,
began in November 1989, its attack on the `` Keating Five. '' These were U.S. Senators,
among them Senator Alan Cranston, charged with savings and loan corruption. The
attack soon narrowed down to one target only--the Iran-Contrary Senator Cranston. On
Aug. 2, 1991, Senator Terry Sanford, having forgotten his shame, took over as the new
chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.
NOTES:
1. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1960), p. 271.
2. Memo, May 14, 1982, two pp. bearing the nos. 29464 and 29465. See also `` NSDD-2 Structure for
Central America, '' bearing the no. 29446, a chart showing the SSG and its CPPG as a guidance agency for
the National Security Council.
3. Testimony of Donald P. Gregg, pp. 72-73 in Stenographic Transcript of Hearings Before the U.S. Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, Nomination Hearing for Donald Phinney Gregg to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Korea. Washington, D.C., May 12, 1989 (hereinafter identified as `` Gregg Hearings ''). This
transcript is available for reading at the office of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in the
Capitol, Washington, D.C. See also Felix Rodriguez and John Weisman, Shadow Warrior (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1989), pp. 213-14. The book was ghost written--and spook-approved--by the CIA and
Donald Gregg before publication.
4. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran Contra Affair (hereinafter identified as
the `` Iran-Contra Report ''), published jointly by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to
Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, and the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Secret Military
Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, Nov. 17, 1987, Washington, D.C., pp. 395-97. Note that
different sections of the Congressional Iran-Contra Report were published on different dates.
5. CovertAction, No. 33, Winter 1990, p. 12; drawn from Public Testimony of Fawn Hall, Iran-Contra
Report, June 8, 1987, p. 15.
6. Memoranda and meetings of March 1983, in the `` National Security Archive '' Iran-Contra Collection on
microfiche at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Reading Room (hereinafter identified as `` Iran-Contra
Collection '').
7. Don Gregg Memorandum for Bud McFarlane, March 17, 1983, stamped SECRET, since declassified.
Document no. 77 in the Iran- Contra Collection; on the memo is a handwritten note from `` Bud ''
[McFarlane] to `` Ollie '' [North]. See also Gregg Hearings, pp. 54- 55.
8. Rodriguez and Weisman, op. cit., p. 119.