The Gates Nomination

July 15, 1991

At the start of US Senate confirmation hearings, Frontline probes the background of Robert M. Gates, President Bush’s nominee to head the CIA. The program, anchored by Hodding Carter III, focuses on Gates’s role in the Iran-contra affair and in a secret US policy to help Saddam Hussein build and maintain his war machine. (30 minutes)

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