The Updated ‘Trick or Treason’ Now Available

From Editor Robert Parry: The new edition of my book, Trick or Treason: The 1980 October Surprise Mystery, is just back from the printers. It tells the remarkable story of political and intelligence intrigue that surrounded America’s pivotal 1980 election.

This new edition not only recounts my PBS-Frontline investigation into this historic case but has a new afterword bringing up to date the mystery of whether Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did conspire with Iranian extremists to delay the release of 52 American hostages to assure President Carter’s defeat, an act close to treason.

You can get a signed copy of Trick or Treason – along with a DVD of the Frontline documentary “Election Held Hostage” – as a thank-you gift for a donation of $125 or more to help keep Consortiumnews.com, our investigative news Web site, afloat. Of course, we appreciate contributions of all sizes.

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We also are registered with PayPal’s Giving Fund under the name Consortium for Independent Journalism. And, since we are a 501-c-3 non-profit, donations by American taxpayers may be tax-deductible.

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Another way to help is to buy a five-book set of my other books – Fooling America, Lost History, Secrecy & Privilege, Neck Deep and America’s Stolen Narrative – through the Web site at a deep discount price, with part of each purchase going to the fund drive.

Thanks for your support and for making our two decades-plus of honest journalism possible. Our work could not happen without your help.

Robert Parry is a longtime investigative reporter who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 to create an outlet for well-reported journalism that was being squeezed out of an increasingly trivialized U.S. news media.