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Causes of Conflict CBA for Mr. Diehl: Topics 23-33

The Pueblo Incident

The Strategic Defense Initiative

Topic overviews as well as the Ronald Reagan's "Address to the Nation on the Meetings with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev in Iceland, October 13, 1986"

Iran-Contra

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Topic overviews

Primary Sources

The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On - Documents Spotlight Role of Reagan, Top Aides housed at the National Security Archive

Documents via the National Security Archive reposted by Brown University.

The Contras, Cocaine and Covert Operations - National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 2

The Deputy Director of the CIA Advises on the Situation in Nicaragua - CIA, Memorandum from DDI Robert M. Gates to DCI William J. Casey, "Nicaragua," SECRET, 14 December 1984, George Washington University, The National Security Archive, The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On

Caspar W. Weinberger, Diary Entry for 7 December 1985, (Washington, DC: National Archives); available from The National Secruity Archive, The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On

 National Security Council, "National Security Planning Group Minutes: Subject: Central America, SECRET," 25 June 1984, (Washington, DC: National Archives), available from The National Security Archive, The Iran-Contra Affair 20 Years On

United States Central Intelligence Agency, The Freedom Fighter's Manual (New York: Grove Press, [1985]).