Unresolved

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.

Unresolved is a history podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 16 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #15

  The Iran-Contra Affair: Episode 15 - What's Still in the Dark

  Mar 19, 202632 minS1

  <p>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 of the public record. This finale examines the full shape of what's missing: the immunity trap that foreclosed the most important prosecutions, the structural origins of the three major investigations and what those origins determined about what each could find, the careers that continued in the absence of legal consequences, and the operational precedents that predated Iran-Contra and...

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  Episode #14

  The Iran-Contra Affair: Episode 14 - The Longer Shadow

  Mar 18, 202631 minS1

  <p>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 breakthrough his administration had spent months working to achieve. A House task force investigated in 1992 and found no credible evidence. But the task force operated under significant structural constraints, and in 2023 the FBI declassified a document referencing a contemporaneous informant's account of a 1980 Paris meeting that changed the evidentiary picture in ways the mainstream account has not fully examined. Th...

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  Episode #13

  The Iran-Contra Affair: Episode 13 - The Vice President's Diary

  Mar 17, 202631 minS1

  <p>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 about what senior officials had said and known. Two weeks after the pardons, investigators learned that Bush had been keeping a personal audio diary throughout the scandal period, which had not been disclosed to investigators for six years. This episode examines the meetings record, the diary, the Weinberger connection, and what the independent counsel — a Repu...

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  Episode #12

  The Iran-Contra Affair: Episode 12 - The Sultan's Money

  Mar 16, 202626 minS1

  <p>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-country solicitation network: the Saudi contributions, the Brunei transfer that went to the wrong Swiss account due to a transposed digit, and the Taiwan channel that ran through intelligence relationships and left the thinnest documentary trail. It examines what Lawrence Walsh identified as the most serious constitutional violation in the entire affair — more serious, in his assessment, than the...

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  Episode #11

  The Iran-Contra Affair: Episode 11 - The Propaganda Machine

  Mar 15, 202630 minS1

  <p>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 prohibited covert propaganda activities targeting American journalists, members of Congress, and the public. This episode examines what S/LPD actually did, what the Comptroller General's finding established as a matter of law, and the dual function the operation served: sustaining public and congressional support for the Contra program while it was running, and pre-positioning the public to rece...

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