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Article: White House offers to let Regan testify // CIA's Casey hospitalized
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 16, 1986
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WASHINGTON The White House, trying to avoid a clash with
Congress, offered yesterday to make chief of staff Donald T. Regan
available to testify about Iranian arms sales and to put new pressure
on two former aides to say what they know about sales and diversion
of profits to Nicaraguan rebels.
Even as the White House offer was being disclosed by spokesman
Larry Speakes, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) was announcing that the
Senate Intelligence Committee had decided to call Regan to testify
today under oath.
The White House said that Regan was prepared to appear,
unaccompanied by legal counsel, at open hearings of the Senate
committee, which has been frustrated in its investigation by ...