| 00:00:02 | Well, would you give us a moment to read it, sir? |
| 00:00:03 | Yes. |
| 00:00:23 | Could you help us out Mr. Nields? Do I begin the reading right on tab 5, or the page behind it? |
| 00:00:27 | Right on tab 5, and my question is simple. Did you tell the Iranians with whom you were negotiating on October 8th and 9th that the Secretary of Defense had told the President at his most recent meeting, when the American people find out that this has happened, they'll impeach him? That's the entire question. Did you say that to the Iranians? |
| 00:00:58 | NORTH: Does it say that on this page, sir? |
| 00:01:00 | Yes, at the very top. |
| 00:01:12 | NORTH: Mr. Nields, this is apparently one of the transcripts of tape recordings that I caused to be made of my discussions with the Iranians. I would like to note that for every conversation, whenever it was possible, I asked for the assistance of our intelligence services to trans -- to tape record and transcribe every single session, so that when I returned there would be no doubt as to what I said. I am the one who created these tapes, plus the seven hours of tape recordings that your committee found yesterday, because I knew where they were, and I kept trying to alert you to them, and I am the one who created those tapes so there would never be any doubt in the minds of my superiors as to what I had said, or why I had said it. That is a bald-faced lie, told to the Iranians, and I will tell you right now, I'd have offered the Iranians a free trip to Disneyland if we could have gotten Americans home for it. |
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