LEBANON/U.S./)BROKAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301410003-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 16, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
16 October 1984
_..LEBANON/U.S/>BROKAW: Tonight.,,the Nation magazine is reporting that
>MARINES>President Reagan ignored a CIA warning and a Pentagon
recorurendation to withdraw American Marines from Beirut
five days before the terrorist attack on the Marine
headquarters. Two hundred forty-one Americans were killed
at the time. According to the magazine, the. CIA warning
and a recommendation from Defense Secretary Weinberger to
pull back the Marines, those recommendations were
delivered at a White House meeting. But then, the Nation
reports, Weinberger was persuaded to rescind his
recommendation. And tonight, National Security Adviser
Robert MacFarlane told Andrea Mitchell of NBC News, 'I do
not recall any such recommendation.' <
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