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June 15, 1981

MEMO FROM RICHARD V ALLEN TO THE U.S. PRESIDENT, SUBJECT: POLITICAL STRATEGY FOR RESPONDING TO ISRAELI ATTACK

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    National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen informed Reagan that the administration was “not required to make a legal determination on whether Israel violated U.S. law” and commented that the issue of the raid was “to be treated as a political rather than a legal question.”
    "Memo from Richard V Allen to the U.S. President, Subject: Political strategy for responding to Israeli attack ," June 15, 1981, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, [undated, attached to Stoessel memo from 15 June 1981], Israel/Iraq-book II (4/5), Executive secretariat - Country file: Israel-Iraq, Box 37 (Box 69), RRL. Obtained for the NPIHP by Giordana Pulcini and Or Rabinowitz https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/270546

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National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen informed Reagan that the administration was “not required to make a legal determination on whether Israel violated U.S. law” and commented that the issue of the raid was “to be treated as a political rather than a legal question.”

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  • [undated, attached to Stoessel memo from 15 June 1981], Israel/Iraq-book II (4/5), Executive secretariat - Country file: Israel-Iraq, Box 37 (Box 69), RRL. Obtained for the NPIHP by Giordana Pulcini and Or Rabinowitz

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