I continued to meet periodically with Iraqi officials in Baghdad and Manhattan and tried to develop ideas for lobbying the U.S. government to open an official dialogue with Iraq in the hopes that this might lead, among other things, for the lifting of sanctions, |
I understood that the Iraqi government did not want some of my activities on their behalf to become public. |
Several hundred thousand dollars of this money was given to me, in Manhattan, and the rest was given to others, one of whom I understood to be a United Nations official, |