This article talked about VOSA, a probably Mossad run radio station in
Southern Azerbaijan, whose goal is to unite the Azerbaijan territory in
northern Iran with the now existent country left over the former Soviet
Union. This is a serious threat to Iranian sovereignty. Secord and
Kimche set it up probably to harrass and weaken the Iranians. Now, it
can be used as a bargaining chip to elicit Iranian cooperation by
staunching revolutionary activity by the Iranian Azeris.
<David Kimche is a 30-year veteran of the Mossad and was an important
force behind the Reagan administration's arms-for
hostages swap with Iran and its secret aid to the Nicaraguan rebels
(coined Iran-Contra.) In fact, it was Kimche who helped
to organize the Contras, who supplied them with Israeli military
advisers, who sold the US government Palestinian weapons
Israel had seized in 1982, and who claimed he could get access to the
hostage-takers in Lebanon. He was not indicted
because of diplomatic scuffling between Israel and the United States.
Kimche was the former Director General of the Israel's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and currently heads the Israel Council on
Foreign Relations. He is also on the Board of Directors
for Israel's International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT.)
Retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord was also a key player
during the Iran-Contra scandal. He earned his wings
while flying for "Air America," the CIA covert paramilitary operation in
Laos that supplied local Hmong tribes with arms and
training to counter the Communist Laotian regime. He wrote a memoir,
"Honored and Betrayed: Irangate, Covert Affairs, and
the Secret War in Laos," in 1992 to detail his involvement with the CIA
and service to the American government. He was one
of the Iran-Contra players who set up the "Enterprise," the company
outside of the CIA that earned money and lined the
pockets for those involved.>
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