Author Craig Unger built off the reporting and archives of Consortium News founder Robert Parry to nail down the October Surprise scandal in his new book available to you for supporting CN.
Ronald Reagan and William Casey. (Public Domain/Levan Ramishvili/Flickr.)
By Diane Duston
In 1995, this website was born when my late husband, Robert Parry, discovered a cache of congressional documents used to investigate the 1980 October Surprise.
He had approached other news outlets to no avail, so he created Consortium News, 30 years ago this year. The first series of articles focused on whether the Reagan-Bush campaign had conspired with Iran to delay release of 52 Americans hostages to defeat incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
Bob plugged away at that story until his death in 2018. He was never able to find the smoking gun.
But in his new book, Den of Spies, best-selling author Craig Unger convincingly makes the case. Unger also had been following the story. Using the materials Bob had saved and his own decades of research, Unger has masterfully proven the conspiracy existed.
Unger has dedicated his book to Bob “and those that fight for the truth.” Everyone should read it. It is particularly timely now as Carter’s presidency is being re-analyzed in the wake of his recent death.
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One lesson is to be careful of an advisor that hold ages of Polish versus Russian religious and other long tern grudges that predate communism and continue to be weaponized in the Ukraine to profit off of more suffering using our Western military offensive permanent war complex.
We aided terrorists from all over the Middle East as hired mercenaries to provoke the USSR to come to the aid of their neighbor and the risks presented of those same forces in the USSR and just in time for a 1980 Moscow Olympic boycott like the just in time failed boycott of the Sochi Olympics over the Ukraine.
Carter didn’t admit secret negotiation were being made for the Embassy hostages release but Bill Casey, the engineer of Reagan’s 1980 New Hampshire primary win and Republican nomination, scuttled the deal offering better term after election and his appointment as CIA director. He may have had religious interests against the USSR and support for terrorists in Afghanistan and Central America too, being in the Order of Malta using drug lords as freedom fighters in exchange for drug sales.
Robert Parry’s work sent me on a 45 year journey.
I’m a regular monthly donor, how do I access this book?
Hi Stephen,
You can get the book with a $150 donation or more before the end of January.
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