On April 23 1987, Brenneke told the "Detroit Free Press" that Iranian authorities gave him intelligence information to pass along to the United States government as an inducement to allow him and his associates to sell them weapons in late 1984. He said the he and two French colleagues gave material to French, Israeli, and United States intelligence sources that included information about the PLO headquarters in Tunisia, prior to its bombing by Israel on October 1, 1985, and maps of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's headquarters, prior to the United States bombing of Libya on April 15, 1986. Brenneke said the intelligence offerings were given to him by an Iranian air force officer authorized by Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, with whom he occasionally spoke with by telephone, and other Iranian officials. He said that he then passed the information to Lt. Col. Larry Caylor, with United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, and Lt. Col. George Alvarez, a Marine Corps counterintelligence, who forwarded some of it to Menarchik.