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Friday, June 12, 1987
Israel's Iran-Contra Role
May Be A More Active One
WOLF BLITZER
Special to The Jewish News
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ashington — The
U.S. special prose-
cutor looking into
the Iran-contra affair and
Congressional investigators
who are undertaking their
own separate inquiry suspect
that Israel may have played a
much more active role in pro-
moting the entire ill-fated af-
fair than had earlier been
thought.
U.S. officials also said that
Independent Counsel Law-
rence Walsh wants the four
Israelis who have already
been subpoenaed to testify
before a secret grand jury to
provide evidence which might
be used to file criminal
charges against American of-
ficials and private busi-
nessmen who were involved in
selling arms to Iran.
The officials noted that
Albert Hakim, the Iranian-
born U.S. businessman who
served as a financial broker in
facilitating the arms trans-
fers, repeated his accusation
that the key Iranian in-
termediary, Manucher Ghor-
banifar, was a former SAVAK
intelligence agent under the
Shah who was later "re-
cruited by Israel."
"I have seen evidence to
support that," Hakim said
without elaboration in
response to questioning by
Republican Senator James
McClure of Idaho, a member
of the joint House-Senate
panel investigating the affair.
Throughout these hearings,
the thrust of McClure's ques-
tioning has revolved around
Israel's connections with
former U.S. officials who were
involved in promoting the
start of the initiative,
especially Michael Ledeen,
who served as a consultant to
the National Security Coun-
cil.
McClure is said to have
been influenced by some
Senate committee staffer
members who suspect that
Israel actually may have "set
up" the U.S. in the entire in-
itiative in order to promote
Israeli weapons sales to Iran
and to tilt the U.S. in favor of
Iran in its war against Iraq.
If Ghorbanifar was actual-
ly taking orders from Israel —
as Hakim, who is Jewish,
seemed to suggest in his
statements — and if some
U.S. officials had their own
private connections to Israel,
this conspiratorial theory in-
volving Israel could take on
added credence.
Hakim, the business part-
ner of retired U.S. Air Force
General Richard Secord, said
that he first met Ya'acov Nir-
modi, the Israeli arms dealer
who was also involved in pro-
viding U.S. weapons to Iran,
in the mid-1960s. At that
time Nimrodi was serving at
the Israeli Embassy in Teh-
eran and Hakim was a busi-
nessman there.
Hakim was not pressed to
elaborate on his assertion
that Ghorbifar was actually
working for Israel. Instead,
he was pressed to describe the
financial arrangements of the
entire operation, including
WASHINGTON IN BRIEF
U.S. Holocaust
Council Gets
2 New Members
Washington (JTA) — Presi-
dent Reagan named two new
members to the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council
last week. They are Bar-
baralee Diamonstein-Spiel-
vogel, of New York, a writer,
television interviewer and
producer, and Richard Rosen-
baum, of Rochester, N.Y., a
lawyer.
Diamonstein-Spielvogel
replaces Edward Sanders, a
Los Angeles lawyer and
former senior advisor to
President Carter and Carter's
last liaison to the Jewish
community.
Rosenbaum replaces Ter-
rence Des Pres, an English
literature professor at Colgate
University and author of The
Survivor, a study of how peo-
ple survived the Holocaust.
Restrictions On
Loans To USSR
Washington (JTA) — The
Union of Council for Soviet
Jews is backing a move to
restrict untied loans to the
Soviet Union. The loans, which
totaled $4 billion in the past
year, are not linked to any trade
transaction or project.
"We are concerned about the
Soviets' access to such cash
loans with no security strings
attached, because they free up
more funds which can be used
to support the internal ap-
paratus which arbitrarily and
systematically denies basic
human rights, including
emigration, to Soviet Jews and
other minorities," said Pamela
Cohen, National President of
UCSJ.
Emigration
Analyzed
Washington (JTA) — The
State Department believes that
whether the Soviet Union's new
law on emigration will restrict
or increase the number of Jews
leaving the USSR depends
more on Soviet government
policy than the wording of the
regulations.
"It appears that political
guidance from above will deter-
mine future long-term emigra-
tion trends and how existing
procedures are interpreted and
implemented, more than the
specifics of the regulations," ac-
cording to the department.
This assessment was contain-
ed in the Reagan Administra-
tion's 22nd semi-annual report
on the implementation of the
Helsinki Final Act released
Monday.
Waldheim's
Nomination
Denounced
Washington (JTA) — The
nomination of Austrian Presi-
dent Kurt Waldheim for the
1987 Nobel Peace Price was
denounced by B'nai B'rith
last week.
In a statement released
here, Seymour Reich, interna-
tional president of B'nai
B'rith, said, "The idea of a
peace prize for an unrepen-
tant Nazi like Kurt Waldheim
mocks the very concept of the
Nobel awards." _
Waldheim is accused of
complicity in Nazi atrocities
when he was an army officer
in the Balkans during World
War II. One of 90 persons
nominated for the 1987 prize,
he was proposed by Prof.
Hans Koechler of Innsbruck
University. Waldheim was
placed on the U.S. Justice
Department's "watch list"
two months ago as an un-
desirable not to be granted
admission to the United
States in private capacity.