Volume 37, Number 9 · May 31, 1990
Was There a Missing Witness?
By Theodore H. Draper
In The New York Times Magazine of April 29, 1990, Seymour M. Hersh contributed an article, 'The Iran-Contra Committees: Did They Protect Reagan?' which deals with some of the issues I have been concerned with in several of my own articles in The New York Review of Books. Hersh's article purports to reveal aspects of the Iran-contra affairs deliberately neglected by the Congressional committees at their hearings in 1987 or that were otherwise concealed from the public. Hersh deals mainly with two matters—the allegedly crucial testimony of James R. Radzimski, and a supposedly second 'diversion' of Iranian funds to Israel. The Radzimski story is the centerpiece.
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