The Iran/Contra Affair Part One: The Hostage Ransom, Iran/Israel Arms Sale

<< Previous Panel | Next Panel >>

Moderator:
Jean-Marc Joseph
Secrecy and U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium

Panelists:

The Iran Affair: The Internal Iranian Politics
Professor William Beeman
Brown University; Consultant, State Department; author, Language, Status and Power in Iran

The Military Intelligence Network: The Roots of the Iran/Contra Affair
Mr. Steven Emerson
Senior Editor, U.S. News and World Report; author, The American House of Saud: The Secret Petrodollar Connection; Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of Reagan Era (forthcoming)

Black Market Arms Trading and the Iran Arms Deal
Professor Michael Klare
Hampshire College; Director, Five-College Program in Peace and World Security Studies; author, Supplying Repression: U.S. Support for Authoritarian Regimes Abroad; co-editor, Low-Intensity Warfare: Counterinsurgency, Proinsurgency and Antiterrorism in the 80's

Counterterrorism and Covert Action
Mr. Noel Koch
President, International Security Management; Director of Special Operations and Counterterrorism, The Pentagon, 1981-86

Mr. Jeffrey Richelson
Visiting Fellow, National Security Archive; author, The U.S. Intelligence Community: American Espionage and the Soviet Target

Covert Action and the Alternative Policies of the U.S. Towards
Professor Barry Rubin
Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies; Director, Program for Political Study of Terrorism; author, Modern Dictators: Third World Coupmakers, Strong Men and Populist Tyrants; Secrets of State: The State Department and the Struggle Over U.S. Foreign Policy

Interlocutors:

Mr. Stephen Engelberg and Mr. Jeffrey Richelson