Israel-contra links known, says paper
NZPA-Reuter New York President Ronald Reagan was told by advisers last September that United States intelligence knew Israel was shipping arms to the contra rebels, the "New York Times” said yesterday. The paper quoted Congressional and Administration sources who said they had seen a White House memorandum to that effect It added that the subject arose on the evening of a meeting between Mr Reagan and Shimon
Peres, who was then Israel’s Prime minister. But the “Times” also quoted an Israeli spokesman, Ehud Gol, as reiterating denials that Israel had shipped arms to the Nicaraguan rebels, and as saying that the matter did not come up during the Peres-Reagan session. According to the newspaper, the White House memo was written at' a time when Congress had prohibited United States officials from providing or soliciting military assistance to the rebels.
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