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Friday, February 27, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Report says president didn't mean to mislead
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col Oliver North may have tried to cover up the Iran arms deal once it was disclosed by preparing a false chronology, and key notes by Rear Adm. John Poindexter could be missing, the Tower Commission said yesterday.
The commission, the most comprehensive report to date about the Iran-contra scandal, said there was no evidence that President Reagan intended to mislead the U.S. public or cover-up unlawful conduct.
"The board is convinced that the president does indeed want the full story to be told," the commission said.
But those involved in preparing Reagan's supporting documentation, including North, did not support Reagan's wishes for full disclosure, at least at first, and scrambled to create at least a dozen chronologies when the arms deal was first disclosed, the commission said.
Both North, who was fired on Nov. 25 when the arms deal was disclosed, and Poindexter, Reagan's former National Security adviser who resigned, have refused to testify about their role in the secret sale of arms to Iran and alleged diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan contras.
The commission said that former National Security adviser Robert McFarlane described to the board the process used by the staff at the National Security Council that obscured essential facts.
The report said that North was the primary government official involved in details of the operation and was the source for chronology and many inaccuracies.
The report also said that it had been unable to find notes of some meetings taken by Poindexter, a key figure in the affair.
Serambing to minimize damage as the Iran arms scandal became public, staff at the National Security Council produced a dozen versions of what happened that misled Reagan and the U.S. public, the report said.
Within several days of the first disclosures of the arms sales from a Middle Eastern newspaper, the commission salaries were issued and others at the NSC began preparing a chronology of the secret sale of arms to Iran.
U.S. panel critical of arms sale report
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders said yesterday that the Tower Commission report highlighted a foreign policy blunder driven by "ideological cowboys" running amok in the White House and called on the president to clean house.
tut leaders of the special House and Senate Iran arms-contra ail investigating panel said the report failed to answer questions they would carefully pursue.
"It's obvious colossal blunders were made," Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said, adding that President Reagan would take the necessary steps to rectify the real problems the report revealed.
Sen. Sam Nunn, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a member of the Senate's Iran panel, said Reagan had been too remote from Iran policy, other foreign policy and domestic policy.
"His decision-making was flawed and out of that came a flawed policy," Nunn said, adding he thought Reagan must change his management style.
House Foreign Affairs Committee member Ed Feighan said the report was a compelling instruction to President Reagan that he should dismiss Donald Regan as chief of staff immediately.
The leaders of the Senate's Iran panel, Daniel Inouye and Warren Rudman, praised the report but noted it was necessarily incomplete because of a lack of cooperation from key witnesses.
1rep Charles Schumer of New York, waving a copy of the thick report in a brief House floor speech, said it had all the makings of a Hollywood movie script with spies, arms sales, a beautiful secretary and international intrigue.
The Tower Commission report said the affair, whatever its initial intent, quickly became an arms-for-hostages operation by an overzealous security council.
Three Democratic presidential candidates, Gary Hart, Bruce Babbitt and Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri, were critical of what the report pointed out.
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