Volume 34, Number 8 · May 7, 1987
Reagan's Underworld
By Stanley Hoffmann
Report of the President's Special Review Board
by John Tower, by Edmund S. Muskie, by Brent Scowcroft
Government Printing Office, 280 pp., $14.00 (paper)
The Tower Commission Report
with an introduction by R.W. Apple Jr.
Bantam Books/Times Books, 550 pp., $5.50 (paper)
The most telling parts of the Tower Commission's report are not to be found in the report itself—which leaves many questions open—but in the appendixes. These quote abundantly from interviews held by the special review board, from documents written by the White House staff, and from the messages Colonel Oliver North and Admiral Poindexter sent each other on the 'PROF System'—'an interoffice mail system run through an IBM main frame computer and managed by the White House Communications Agency for the NSC.'
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