The Nation - News from April 28, 1989

Rep. Lee H. Hamilton (D-Ind.), chairman of the House committee that investigated the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987, said that he will formally ask Rep. Anthony C. Beilenson (D-Los Angeles), chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to examine whether the White House withheld key documents from the congressional inquiry into the scandal. The Senate Intelligence Committee already has been asked to open a similar inquiry by Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) and Sens. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.), chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Iran-Contra panel. Documents that had not been given to the congressional inquiry have been introduced at the trial of former Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, raising questions about how complete White House cooperation with the committees had been.