LETTER TO DAVE DURENBERGER FROM ROBERT M. GATES RE INADEQUATELY INFORMED AT THE TIME OF MY TESTIMONY ABOUT THE FURMARK-CASEY CONTACTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: IRAN-CONTRA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001296131
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2009
• Case Number: F-1992-00896
• Publication Date: December 9, 1986

The Deputy Dirrdor of Central Intelligence.:'
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APPROVED FOR RELEASED
DATE: 12-16-2008
9 December 1986.
OCA 86-4066
The Honorable Dave Durenberger
Chairman
Select Committee on Intelligence
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
Inasmuch as I had less than 24 hours to prepare for my testimony and
was not a direct participant in the events described, I now find that I
was inadequately informed at the time of my testimony about the
Furmark-Casey contacts. In helping to prepare Mr. Casey's testimony for
this week, I have learned that when Mr. Furmark spoke to the DCI on.7
October, he made no mention of the possibility of any Iranian funds
going to the Contras. He spoke only of dissatisfied investors, the
possibility that the investors had been speaking to U.S. Senators, and a
suggestion on how to resolve he issue. This is summarized in a DCI
memorandum of 8 October.
It was on 22 October, in discussions with Mr. Charles Allen in New
York, that Mr. Furmark said for the first time that Ghobanifar -- the
Iranian intermediary and arms merchant -- had told him that he
(Ghobanifar) believed that some of the money had been "earmarked for
Central America." The Committee has the unsigned, undated memorandum
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detailing conversation of 22 October between Allen, Cave and
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I hope this clarification is useful to the Committee. (U)
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