European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page is column the stars and stripes wednesday August 5,1987 columnist gets a Good grilling.r1. A. 4 Giitl what off Hilt in  a column in which i consider what in would Belike to be questioned by a congressional investigation committee. A congressman or counsel or. Rooney May we assume that your first name is Andrew a Landy that is Correct sir. C and am t Correct in saying that your Middle name is Aitken a it be a m l my lawyer or. Chairman i object to this line of questioning. A great Many Law abiding amen can citizens have Middle names they Are not eager have revealed. I see to reason Why my client should be made a laughing Stock by having his Middle name made Public. Chairman objection overruled. Witness s mid dle name is fair game. C and is in True Hal your Middle name Aitken is pronounced without the t As in aching  sir. May i respectfully. Chairman objection overruled. Counsel will proceed. C1 Wil Ryou please Ted the Commil Tec to the Best of your knowledge whether it is Irue thai in addition Coyour newspaper column you also write for television a i m on vacation sir but to the Besl of my recollection it is True yes sir. O if you will refer 10 Page 169 of document no. 4j2 in front of you. You la notice Tea Fiji Ouline questionnaire for your passport m 1960. You led yourself simply i  you Laid nothing Aboul writing for television. A that s nol something i m proud of having done in i freely admit thai i was less than candid of did i Ell the whole Story. If i May expand on that a bit to in Lell e woe s. Make my position dear you must remember mat in four ear All the bad things peo ing about television and 1 did t want to make life they were just ple were say-i960 my fou children were Young. To beginning to Hea televise any harder for them t did l want my children to have to face other kids in school and admit in front of the whole class that their father was a television  that i the Only reason i did that sir. To protect my children. C let move on. Or Rodney could you Tell us How much Money you have in your Swiss Bank account. $3 million $5 million. 117 million. Just in round numbers. A 1 Don l have a Swiss Bank account. C May the record show Hal or. Rooney says he does t have a Swiss Bank account chairman proceed. C could you provide this committee your notes on a meeting you had in 1952 with a banker from whom you were trying to gel a mortgage loan chairman there s a vote on the Senate floor. Members May excuse themselves. A Midsummer night s dream _ _ _  Hie it ii a tar Llyl Lar Shleby Art Buchwald millions of people went to bed this Summ dream ing they were witnesses in the congressional Iran Contra hearings. I must confess Hal i was one of them. My fantasy was that i was an Admiral and i was being grilled viciously by counsel for the Senate. Admiral is in Correct to say Hal you started world War hit1-yes sir and i would be Happy to declare to again because in is the Only Legal thing to  did the president know you Wert going to Siart a War no sir he did nou the president does t like to gel i involved in details. The Buck stops with me on this one. Why is that?""1 had to keep it a secret from the president to Yve him plausible deniability. If the president didst know what we were doing he could l Slop us from doing it. This is not to say that if the president did know he would nol support me in what we were  the while House says empirically Hal or. Rea Gan did not know about world War Iii and if he did know he would have opposed your starting it. He had to say that to of civic him plausible Denin Bili  what about la. Col. North he was . He knew everything that was going on and did whatever was asked of my. I never saw anyone so Happy to follow his Superior up the Hilt and Down again. Ollie was there when you needed him and More important when you did l need him. The Man could lie and shred Al the same time Admiral will you Tell us about inc Money Hal was raised for the War by Sculli Garms to country no. 67""we had 10 sell arms to country no. 6 to gel funds to Riehl country no. 23. The arms Cost so million and our profit was ji40 million. It  Only Money we had to finance the Mart of world War 111 except what we go from  you please Lell me where you Gol your authority 10 Start a War. Our lawyer who just passed his bar exam in Hui ruled that what we did was  starting wild War Iii was a peachy �  s not for you to decade. It s a presidential dec s1�"sir if 1 had to bother the president Aboul every Lillic War the United states is going to get involved in or Reagan would not gel any sleep. 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