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21. NY Times April 15, 1991 - New Reports Say 1980 Reagan Campaign Tried to Delay Hostage Release
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:25 PM
Apr 2016
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New Reports Say 1980 Reagan Campaign Tried to Delay Hostage Release
By NEIL A. LEWIS,
Published: April 15, 1991


¶ WASHINGTON, April 14— Persistent but unproven accusations that Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign negotiated a secret deal with Iran to prevent the release of American hostages until after the election are being revived this week with fresh accounts of meetings between campaign officials and an Iranian cleric.

¶ One of the accounts is provided by Gary Sick, a Middle East specialist who helped handle the Iranian hostage crisis as a member of the White House staff in the Carter Administration. Mr. Sick, in an article published Monday on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, says he has heard what he considers to be reliable reports that a secret deal involving the hostages was begun during two meetings between William J. Casey and the Iranian cleric in a Madrid hotel in July 1980.

¶ The allegation that there were meetings between Mr. Casey, Mr. Reagan's campaign chairman, who went on be the Director of Central Intelligence, and Hojatolislam Mehdi Karrubi, a representative of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, has been reported for the first time by Mr. Sick. Research for a Book

¶ He says in his article that the accounts of the meetings in Madrid are part of an accumulation of information he has developed in research for a book. He says it has led him to conclude, despite earlier doubts, that some kind of discussions took place between the Reagan campaign and Iran.

¶ "The story is tangled and murky, and it may never be fully unraveled," Mr. Sick writes.

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Thank you! Now this is what I thought a liberal message board would be about. Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #1
Where you been? Octafish Apr 2016 #18
Fascinating stuff. Timeline, I like that. Jackie Wilson Said Apr 2016 #39
Saudi Arabia is the Capitol of the BFEE Octafish Apr 2016 #40
Whatever it takes kacekwl Apr 2016 #44
Yes Angry Dragon Apr 2016 #38
yes, i believe he was. MariaThinks Apr 2016 #2
totally agree Fresh_Start Apr 2016 #3
Pretty much spot on Cosmocat Apr 2016 #13
we don't need enemies we have ourselves Fresh_Start Apr 2016 #16
Not Only Ronnie colsohlibgal Apr 2016 #4
Yup. That where they learned it from. roamer65 Apr 2016 #31
yes he was Skittles Apr 2016 #5
Might not be so... TomVilmer Apr 2016 #6
I will go with Gary Sick KT2000 Apr 2016 #7
I'll go with Robert Parry gabeana Apr 2016 #10
exactly... I was going to post that if no one else didn't Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #17
Nope. chervilant Apr 2016 #23
"Iranians feared having to start negotiations over with a new administration" makes no sense. ieoeja Apr 2016 #37
The timing - plus the release of weapons to Iran just days later- should have been suspicious enough forest444 Apr 2016 #8
Oh hell yes. I knew it back then. trof Apr 2016 #9
That's a fact! dpatbrown Apr 2016 #11
Now, to be fair, he had his reasons. byronius Apr 2016 #12
YEP Cosmocat Apr 2016 #14
Well done! zentrum Apr 2016 #20
He was a traitor. blondie58 Apr 2016 #43
Don't forget the Nixon betrayal Johnson hid from the public. byronius Apr 2016 #45
Everytime I hear someone in the media extolling the sacred deeds of St Ronnie procon Apr 2016 #15
This was a well known zentrum Apr 2016 #19
NY Times April 15, 1991 - New Reports Say 1980 Reagan Campaign Tried to Delay Hostage Release vkkv Apr 2016 #21
He isn't the only one. But it's nice to draw attention to it. nt silvershadow Apr 2016 #22
I was there maindawg Apr 2016 #24
Hey the repugnuts needed a hero after The tricky one stepped down in shame so Saint Ronnie was born. pressbox69 Apr 2016 #25
The CIA has done this in other countries for years to sway elections. jalan48 Apr 2016 #26
Can I be the first to say... bayareaboy Apr 2016 #27
Ronald Reagan really was a traitor and conspired with Iran to keep the Hostages AlbertCat Apr 2016 #28
From the movie "Captain America" 7Inches Apr 2016 #29
But WE all knew this right? Timing:Hostages released DURING inauguration. joanbarnes Apr 2016 #30
HW Bush met w/the Iranians in Paris in Oct. of 1980 to cut the deal Botany Apr 2016 #32
Yes, William Casey too dreamnightwind Apr 2016 #33
The secret service agents who were covering HW Bush in the fall of 1980 all had Botany Apr 2016 #34
Yes I recall some of that dreamnightwind Apr 2016 #35
Let's be clear about this: Reagan was THE tool of the bush regime, he did everything they underahedgerow Apr 2016 #36
Way beyond Bush. Not that he wasn't a part of the plans, but others were part of it, FighttheFuture Apr 2016 #42
It was critical the Reagan be installed so he could start the RW Think Tanks plans developed FighttheFuture Apr 2016 #41
Robert Parry has an excellent resource... Octafish Apr 2016 #46
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