Consideration of this implication led me to decide i should send this statement to you via the CHAIRMAN OF THE U.S. CONGRESSIONAL IRAN-CONTRA COMMITTEE rather than President Reagan--though i never indicated that President Reagan shouldn't be allowed to examine the statement to you as we would still require the White House's cooperation to obtain copies of the relevant documents we need...unless they, too, have been "shredded" (as were documents previously held by Lt.-Col. North, Admiral Poindexter, and others, i know and presume your investigations have revealed to you).
And if the U.S. Presidential documents were shredded, i can't see how we can avoid being victims of "manipulation and exploitation" by our adversaries or by impartial parties in the international diplomatic community inadvertently as it's hard to believe they would have shredded the documents they have relating to our present problems.
Therefore, i especially recommend that you be given or that you request from the White House a copy of the U.S. President's authorization approving execution of this work (originally done by me according to the terms of agreement for his predecessor as are described in the aforementioned agreement) by other individuals below the level of authority of the U.S. President and without his active participation in the approval or disapproval decision-making process--or with it, depending upon what the U.S. President now wants us to believe. An active decision-making capacity for the U.S. President was the primary condition of the 1978 agreement applying to my work as SPECIAL DIPLOMATIC ADVISER TO THE U.S. PRESIDENT--work in fields that are now the subject of so much controversy due to this confusion about President Reagan's real role in the policymaking of his administration resulting from the administration's frequently changing stories about it.
While i anticipate that President Carter (and
Walter Mondale, Senator Kennedy, Senator
Dole, former PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR
RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT Robert McNamara among the
Americans) should be asked questions about this, insofar as
my understanding of the reasons for this policy would
seem relevant also presently, in regards to this--"the
primary condition..."--as i understood it in and since 1978, it
was because for a time i did have to make some decisions
independent of President Carter's "approval or
disapproval decision-making " authority as at that time when i
did certain work now relevant again (underlined in my September,
1987 statement to U.S. SENATE MAJORITY Robert C. Byrd and
SPEAKER OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Jim Wright),
President Carter was busy with the Camp David Summit.
As that "situation" resulted from actions
taken abroad beyond our control and could arise similarly in
future before we could settle the existing differences on our
side, this condition was included re whatever work i might have
to add beyond the preliminary work so that...something like what
is now being investigated would never happen and to substantiate
that what did happen and the work done by me would be respected
as "legitimate...International Diplomatic
Work...on a direct basis."
As these 1978 documents will also confirm, there were three
other fundamental and essential conditions pertaining to
completion of this "legitimate...International Diplomatic
Work...on a direct basis."
It should always contain the truth.
It should not risk human lives except in self-defense or in
defense of our "best" interests.
And as should all competent and "legitimate" international
diplomacy particularly when it does affect the safety of human
lives--it should always express and epitomize "respect for the
rule of law in international affairs."
It always has as it has been prepared by me.
Mr. Walsh, in regards to these conditions i've also
requested that the White House provide you with copies of the
documents included in the Canadian judicial process re
my "International Diplomatic Work...on a
direct basis" resulting from the 7
December, 1981 Employment and Immigration Canada decision to
disentitle me to unemployment insurance for the reason stated
(by them) on the bottom portion of the first attachment
here.
TAKE YOUR NEXT FOOTSTEP HERE TO SEE PAGE 4. OF THE FIRST STATEMENT TO LAWRENCE WALSH.