WASHINGTON CIA officials who testified to Congress about aNovember, 1985, arms shipment to Iran are the focus of a full-scalecriminal investigation.
Iran-contra prosecutors are trying to determine whether theagency officials knowingly participated in an elaborate White Houseeffort to conceal details about the CIA's role in the shipment and topaper over misstatements by President Ronald Reagan after disclosureof the Iran-contra scandal in 1986, according to sources.
This adds a new element to the final phase of the 5 1/2-yearinvestigation of the scandal. The prosecutors have beenconcentrating on CIA complicity in the cover-up of the Reaganadministration's secret …
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