[ FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL FOR IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS // Lawrence E. Walsh, Independent Counsel // August 4, 1993, Washington, D.C. // Volume I: Investigations and Prosecutions ]

Chapter 6

Robert L. Earl



Footnotes

1 In addition, because Earl testified before the Grand Jury in May and June 1987 -- before North testified to Congress under the grant of use immunity -- Earl was able to testify at North's trial without serious objections from the defense that his testimony was tainted by North's congressional appearance.
2 Earl, North Trial Testimony, 3/23/89, pp. 5531-32, 5555. Before North left for Iran, he told Earl that if he did not return, Earl should destroy the contents of the bottom drawer of his safe. (Ibid., p. 5564.)
3 Ibid., pp. 5532-33.
4 Ibid., pp. 5537-38.
5 Ibid., pp. 5538-45.
6 Ibid., 3/28/89, pp. 5616-17.
7 Ibid., pp. 5608, 5620-21, 5633-34, 5641.
8 Ibid., pp. 5616, 5620.
9 Earl, Grand Jury, 5/1/87, p. 91; Earl, Select Committees Deposition, 5/2/87, p. 72.
10 Earl, Grand Jury, 5/1/87, p. 82.
11 Ibid., p. 86.
12 Earl, North Trial Testimony, 3/28/89, p. 5625.
13 Earl, Grand Jury, 5/1/87, pp. 121-25; Earl, FBI 302, 4/30/87, p. 2; Hall, Grand Jury, 3/18/87, pp. 201-2; Hall, FBI 302, 1/29/87, morning session, pp. 7, 9; Hall, FBI 302s, 2/5/87, pp. 13-14, and 2/8/87, p. 7.
14 Earl, Grand Jury, 5/1/87, pp. 118-19.
15 Hall, Grand Jury, 3/20/87, pp. 38-40; Hall, FBI 302, 2/8/87, pp. 1-2. Earl testified that he "repressed" his memory of this conversation "almost totally" and that he could not "recall almost anything from that conversation." (Earl, Select Committees Deposition, 5/2/87, p. 94; see also Earl, FBI 302, 4/30/87, p. 2.)
16 Earl, FBI 302, 11/29/86, p. 8.
17 Ibid., p. 10.
18 Earl, North Trial Testimony, 3/28/89, pp. 5636, 5640-41.


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