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TITLE PAGE:

The title page for Volume 1 reads as follows:

     UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
     FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT

     Division for the Purpose of
     Appointing Independent Counsel
     Division No. 86-6

     FINAL REPORT OF THE
     INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR
     IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS

     Volume I:
     Investigations and Prosecutions

     Lawrence E. Walsh
     Independent Counsel

     August 4, 1993
     Washington, D.C.



INTRODUCTION:

The Letter of Transmittal to Volume 1 reads as follows:
     

     REPORTS OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL

     The Office of Independent Counsel for Iran/contra Matters is
submitting three volumes of reports to the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Division for the
Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsel:

     1.  Volume I: Investigations and Prosecutions

     2.  Volume II: Indictments, Plea Agreements, Interim Reports
to the Congress and Administrative Matters

     3.  Volume III: Classified Materials

     The materials from Independent Counsel's investigations that
are not contained in one of these three volumes have been
deposited with the National Archives. Materials are also held,
some under seal, in the U.S. District Courts for the District of
Columbia, Maryland, and the Eastern District of Virginia and in
the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit and for the Fourth Circuit.


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

The Table of Contents for Volume 1 is as follows:

     Contents

     Volume I

     Letter of Transmittal     iii

     Executive Summary        xiii

     Summary of Prosecutions     xxiii

     Part I_The Underlying Facts     1

     Part II_History of the Investigation     25

     Chronology of Key Public Developments     51

     Part III_The Operational Conspiracy: A Legal Analysis     55

     Part IV_Investigations and Cases: The National Security
Council Staff     77

      Chapter  1_U.S. v. Robert C. McFarlane     79

      Chapter  2_U.S. v. Oliver L. North     105

      Chapter  3_U.S. v. John M. Poindexter     123

      Chapter  4_Paul B. Thompson     137

      Chapter  5_Fawn Hall     147

      Chapter  6_Robert L. Earl     151

      Chapter  7_Thomas C. Green     155

     Part V_Investigations and Cases: The Flow of Funds and the
Private Operatives     157

      Chapter  8_The Enterprise and Its Finances     159

      Chapter  9_U.S. v. Richard V. Secord     173

     Chapter 10_U.S. v. Albert Hakim     179

     Chapter 11_U.S. v. Thomas G. Clines     181

     Chapter 12_Swiss Funds Recovery Efforts     185

     Chapter 13_Private Fundraisers (U.S. v. Carl R. Channell and
U.S. v. Richard R. Miller)     187

     Chapter 14_Other Money Matters     3

     Part VI_Investigations and Cases: Officers of the Central
Intelligence Agency     199

     Chapter 15_William J. Casey     201

     Chapter 16_Robert M. Gates     223

     Chapter 17_U.S. v. Clair E. George     233

     Chapter 18_U.S. v. Duane R. Clarridge     247

     Chapter 19_U.S. v. Alan D. Fiers, Jr.     263

     Chapter 20_U.S. v. Joseph F. Fernandez     283

     Chapter 21_CIA Subject #1     295

     Chapter 22_James L. Adkins     309

     Chapter 23_Conduct of CIA Officers in November 1986     311

     Part VII_Investigations and Cases: Officers of the
Department of State     325

     Chapter 24_George P. Shultz, M. Charles Hill and Nicholas
Platt     325

     Chapter 25_U.S. v. Elliott Abrams     375

     Chapter 26_Edwin G. Corr     393

     Part VIII_Investigations and Cases: Officers of the
Department of Defense (U.S. v. Caspar W. Weinberger and Related
Investigations)     405

     Part IX_Investigations of the White House     443

     Chapter 27_President Reagan     445

     Chapter 28_George Bush     473

     Chapter 29_Donald P. Gregg     485

     Chapter 30_Donald T. Regan     505

     Chapter 31_Edwin Meese, III     525

     Part X_Political Oversight and the Rule of Law     555

     Part XI_Concluding Observations     561

     Index     567