Fred Eichel person
also: Fred Ikle, Eichel, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
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or we're going to get mad at you. Officials outside the CIA, including Vernon Walters, now ambassador to the UN, and Fred Eichel, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, rejected the limited vision of Afghan prospects. Richard Perle, his depu…
▶ 30:16
The victory camp scored major points in late 84 when the Senate passed a resolution in favor of greatly improving the equipment of the Mujahideen. In March 85, President Reagan approved a national security directive that made it official po…
▶ 30:45
Fred Eichel, at one meeting, advocated cutting out the ISI middleman by flying arms directly to the Mujahideen. Inevitably, someone raised the danger of a Soviet-American confrontation. Bertie Dunn's deputy, Thomas Twinton, attended this re…
▶ 31:15
That's not such a bad idea. Yeah, so much for civilians running the Defense Department. Eichel later claimed that call that he had just been kidding. At the Pentagon, Michael Pillsbury, an aide to Eichel, took the new finding as an opportun…
▶ 33:14
General Zia again emphasized giving the rebels Stinger missiles. Finally, the log jam was broken. At a breakfast in early December, McMahon told Fred Eichel that the CIA would ship as many of the missiles as the Pentagon could provide. When…