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To: John Lacelle who wrote (15909)	2/3/2000 2:00:00 PM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

3 Feb 1980: The US government announces a change in policy towards Iran, that still holds the majority of hostages. ('The events in Afghanistan give the revolution in Iran and its circumstances a totally new perspective.' -backtranslated from German-). The US now agree that there should be an international tribunal in Iran over Shah Reza Pahlevi, and hope that Iran will allow the American hostages to leave into a third country's embassy. While the US and Germany have already delivered weapons 'and other reinforcements' to Turkey, a German conservative (=opposition) top politician (A.Dregger) suggests weapons deliveries 'to the Gulf region' (Iran, Iraq, or both?), well-knowing that weapons deliveries into 'regions of international tension' are against our laws and constitutional principles. Zbigniew Brzezinski meets Zia-ul-Haq in Pakistan, who boldly claims that financial and military aid already delivered are lacking in amount 'by far'. Meanwhile Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French Premier Giscard d'Estaing have met in Paris and constituted a double-track policy: France, not in Nato, should keep the contacts to Russia, while Germany should assure the US of firm European allegiance - a transparent veil for undetermined future perspectives and disunity between Western European states... European states will not decide on the olymic boycott 'before the US presidential elections are over' ... MNI PS.: An event roughly five years earlier, but surfacing only last week - Chancellor Schmidt channels 50 Million Marks from a BND (secret service) slush fund to the three parliamentarian parties of Germany who promise to support their counterparts in the nascent Iberian democracies from that money. It is alleged that Schmidt was asked for such action as a favor by the US government to ensure on one hand not too good results by undemocratic parties, while making sure that the US cannot be blamed for interference. Part of the Kohlgate millions could be kickbacks from Portugal, after all ...