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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp90-00965r000302540001-0: FIRM SAYS U.S. URGED COVERT PLOTS

STAT Declassified in Part - ) ARTICAE ON PAGEAPPir Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/26: CIA-RDP90-00965R000302540001-0 PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 26 April 1987 Firm says U.S. urged covert plots Khomeini called target of one scheme Richard J. Meadows Peregrine's president 47 By Frank Greve, Matthew Purdy and Mark Fazlollah Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON ? Pentagon intelli-gence specialists urged a private Texas company to mount several se-cret operations deemed too sensitive for direct U.S. government involve-ment, including the sale of arms for an aborted 1982 plot by Iranian mili…