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In reply to the discussion: Ronald Reagan really was a traitor and conspired with Iran to keep the Hostages [View all]vkkv
(3,384 posts)21. NY Times April 15, 1991 - New Reports Say 1980 Reagan Campaign Tried to Delay Hostage Release
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/world/new-reports-say-1980-reagan-campaign-tried-to-delay-hostage-release.html#h[]
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.
more at link
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/world/new-reports-say-1980-reagan-campaign-tried-to-delay-hostage-release.html#h[]
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.
more at link
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/world/new-reports-say-1980-reagan-campaign-tried-to-delay-hostage-release.html#h[]
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Ronald Reagan really was a traitor and conspired with Iran to keep the Hostages [View all]
UCmeNdc
Apr 2016
OP
Thank you! Now this is what I thought a liberal message board would be about.
Jackie Wilson Said
Apr 2016
#1
"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
NY Times April 15, 1991 - New Reports Say 1980 Reagan Campaign Tried to Delay Hostage Release
vkkv
Apr 2016
#21
Hey the repugnuts needed a hero after The tricky one stepped down in shame so Saint Ronnie was born.
pressbox69
Apr 2016
#25
Ronald Reagan really was a traitor and conspired with Iran to keep the Hostages
AlbertCat
Apr 2016
#28
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