CARLUCCI NAMED TO NSC POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504860006-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 3, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

r. Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08 :CIA-RDP90-009658000504860006-6
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c~ pac~E ~_-~---- WASHINGTON TIMES
3 December 1986
(Carlucci
named to
NSC post
8y Jeremiah O Leary
'NE WA SHMGTON TIMES
President Reagan said yesterday
he supports Attorney General Ed-
win Aleese's decision to seek an in-
dependent counsel to probe allega-
tions of criminality in the secret
diversion of Iranian arms funds to
Nicaragua's anti-:Marxist rebels.
It w?as the fourth time in three
weeks that 1~Ir. Reagan has ad-
dressedthe Iranian arms scandal on
national television.
1linutes after Mr. Reagan spoke,
~Ir. tileese revealed plans to seek a
court-appointed counsel under the
1978 Ethics in Government Act, a
post-Watergate law designed to re-
move criminal investigations of ad-
ministration officials from Justice
Department jurisdiction.
In his midday television address,
the president also announced the ap-
pointment of former Deputy De-
fense Secretary Frank Carlucci as
his national security adviser and
threw his full support behind pro-
posals for a joint congressional com-
mittee to consolidate at least nine
separate im?estiga[ions now under
way on Capitol Hill.
"If the investigative processes
now set in motion are given an op-
portunity to work, all the facts con-
cerning Iran and thu rrarrsfer of
funds to assist the anti-Sandinista
forces will shortly be made public;'
:\[r Reagan said in afour-minute
speech from his White House desk.
"Then the American people will
be the final arbiters of this contro-
versy;' he said. "You will have all the
facts and will be able to judge for
yourselves"
The president said i~1r. Meese had
informed him that the Justice De-
partment's preliminary probe had
turned up reasonable grounds to
warrant investigation by an indepen-
dent counsel.
"If illegal acts were undertaken,
those who did so will be brought to
justice;' \Ir. Reagan said. "If actions
in implementing my policy were un-
dertaken without my authorization,
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