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- <text id=91TT1470>
- <title>
- July 01, 1991: The Arms Pipeline That Came First
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 01, 1991 Cocaine Inc.
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- THE ARMS PIPELINE THAT CAME FIRST
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- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> A book due out next month makes provocative disclosures
- about the tangled relationship between U.S. and Israeli
- intelligence services. According to Major General Avraham Tamir,
- a retired senior Israeli defense official quoted in Dangerous
- Liaison, the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION approved Israeli arms
- shipments to Tehran for use against Iraq in 1981, long before
- the Iran-contra affair. Authors Andrew and Leslie Cockburn say
- the transfers were part of a strategy to head off Soviet
- influence in the gulf region. The book also dein detail
- Operation KK Mountain, in which the CIA secretly paid Israel as
- much as $20 million annually throughout the 1960s to operate as
- its surrogate in the Third World. Security sources also told the
- writers that the Israelis have placed remote-controlled nuclear
- devices in the Golan Heights to deter an invasion by Syria.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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