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Washington (JTA) — President Reagan read Ter- rorism: How the West Can Win, the book edited by Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israel Ambassador to the United Nations, while flying to and from the Economic Summit in Tokyo in May, 1986. Rear Adm. John Poin- dexter, the President's former National Security Advisor, said last week during his testimony before the Senate- House committees investigat- ing the Iran-Contra Affair. Poindexter brought this up when he was asked whether he had ever come close to tell- ing Reagan about the diver- sion of profits from the sale of arms to Iran to the Contras. The former head of the Na- tional Security Council said that he had approved the diversion when it was sug- gested to him by Lt. Col. Oliver North in January,1986. "I thought it was a good idea" and "consistent" with the President's policy to sup- port the Contras, Poindexter said. He said he made a "deli- berate decision" not to tell the President about the diversion to protect Reagan from any political embarrassment. "I decided that the buck stops here, that I have the authority to do this," he said. However, he noted, "If the President had asked me I very likely would have told him about it. But he didn't." Poindexter said he con- sidered telling Reagan when on the return flight from Ibkyo, Reagan asked him if there was anything "unilater- ally" the President could do about supporting the Con- tras, despite the Congres- sional ban on providing funds to the anti-Sandinista group. The President was concerned that Congress had not yet ap- proved the $100 million the Administration requested for the Contras, which was ap- propriated later in the year. Poindexter said that until he spoke about the diversion of funds for the Contra with Attorney General Edwin 'Meese III in November, 1986, he believed that only Lt. Col. Oliver North and he were the only members of the govern- ment who knew about it. North has testified that he discussed the diversion with the late William Casey, then director of the Central In- telligence Agency. After the diversion was disclosed by Meese, Poindexter was was allowed to resign from the NSC and North was fired. In other developments, for those who had predicted that the Congressional investiga- tion into the Iran-Contra affair would show Israeli com- plicity in the diversion of funds from the sale of arms to Iran to the Contras, the six days of testimony by North must have been a disap- pointment. But North did not take Israel completely off the hook as he described two incidents in Israel's involvement in the affair. The first was that Amiram Nir, the counter- terrorism advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, pro- posed to North that profits from the arms sale be used to pay for the United States resupply of Israel with the 503 TOW anti-tank missiles that Israel sold Iran in 1985 and for "supporting other activities." The second incident de- scribed by North took place at a meeting in Europe in January 1986, between North, Nir and Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian arms dealer, whom Israel and then the U.S. had used as the middleman for the sale of arms to Iran. During a meeting, North said Ghorbanifar took him in- to the bathroom and pro- posed the diversion of the arms profits for the Contras. North said then-CIA direc- tor Casey told him that the CIA believed Ghorbanifar was an Israeli intelligence agent. North said he believed at the time that Ghorbanifar made the proposal "with the full knowledge and acquie- sence of the Israeli in- telligence service services, if not the Israeli government." However, North also testi- fied that as the NSC official responsible for the U.S. ef- forts against terrorism, he had expressed reluctance at the meeting in Europe to sup- plying Iran with arms, and Ghorbanifar had pulled him aside to make several sugges- tions aimed at changing his mind. San Francisco Jews To Picket Pope's Visit San Francisco (JTA) — Bay Area Jewish groups began making plans last Monday to greet Pope John Paul II's visit to San Francisco in September 17 with an array of protests — everything from teach-ins to public demon- strations.