ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Unresolved, a Signal & Fracture investigation series by IScann Group, explores the gaps between the official narrative of government scandals and the open-source documentation that accompanies them.
Season 1 features the Iran-Contra Affair.
The National Security Archive (nsarchive.gwu.edu) maintains the most comprehensive publicly accessible Iran-Contra document collection, including ongoing releases from FOIA litigation. Walsh's Final Report — the most important and least-read document in the Iran-Contra record — is available in full through their collection.
Update frequency:
daily
Average audio length:
27 minutes
English
United States
16 episodes
since March 5, 2026
episodic
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Significant portions of the Iran-Contra documentary record remain classified, redacted, or under seal. In 2017, documents that had already been released were reclassified. Walsh's investigative files remain sealed at the National Archives. The NSA's intercepts from the period have never been part o…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
A persistent allegation has shadowed the Iran-Contra affair since it broke: that representatives of Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign secretly negotiated with Iranian officials to delay the release of the fifty-two American hostages until after the election — denying Jimmy Carter the break…
George H.W. Bush maintained throughout the Iran-Contra period that he was "out of the loop." On Christmas Eve 1992, six weeks after losing the presidential election, he pardoned six Iran-Contra figures — including Caspar Weinberger, whose trial was weeks away and whose diaries contained entries abo…
When Congress cut off Contra funding, the administration didn't stop the operation. It found other sources — and the mechanism it used to extract those sources raises a constitutional question that the official Iran-Contra account has consistently underweighted. This episode examines the third-coun…
While the Contra supply operation was running, the Reagan administration operated a domestic communications effort — the Office of Public Diplomacy, housed in the State Department and run with NSC coordination — that the Comptroller General of the United States subsequently found had conducted proh…
The Kerry Committee's 1989 report concluded that individuals associated with the Contra supply network were involved in drug trafficking, that U.S. government officials knew, and that they did not act on that knowledge. The finding received limited public attention and has been contested. This epis…
William Buckley was the CIA's Station Chief in Beirut when he was kidnapped by Hezbollah in March 1984. He died in captivity — before the first arms transfer, before the operation that was partly justified by the goal of recovering American hostages. His case raises a precise question about the ope…
The Iran-Contra narrative is almost entirely told from the American side. This episode examines what the Israeli and Iranian records suggest about what the other participants understood they were doing. What did Israel's role in brokering and facilitating the arms transfers reflect about its own st…
The Iran arms initiative depended on a middleman: Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian exile arms dealer whom the CIA had formally burned — concluded was a fabricator whose intelligence should not be trusted — before the operation began. This episode examines why an intelligence community that had form…
On October 5, 1986, a cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua. Its sole survivor, Eugene Hasenfus, was captured by Sandinista forces and told reporters he worked for the CIA. The administration denied any connection. What followed was a five-week window — between the shootdown and the first public…
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