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Dercription This document collection focuses on two major issues central to the Iraqgate affair. The first is U.S. policy toward Iraq during the 1980s up to the latter’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. The second is the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) affair, which came to the attention of the authorities and the public during the summer of 1989, following the revelation that the small Atlanta branch office of an Italian bank had provided Iraq with several billion dollars in off-book loans and credits. The majority of the documents in the set, therefore, date from the administrations of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) and George Bush (1989-1993). During Reagan’s tenure in office, the U.S. Intensified efforts to improve U.S.-Iraq relations, in part to ensure against Iraq’s defeat in the Iran-Iraq war. This policy was continued after the end of the war, through most of the first year and a half of the Bush administration, until developing events, including the crisis brought about by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, rendered it untenable.
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