October Surprise event
also: 1980 October surprise, October surprise, 1968 October surprise, September surprise, October surprise of 1968 or 1980
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Claims (3)
Lee Hamilton covered_up
October Surprise book_quoted
“He was as corrupt as corrupt can be. There was always allegations of election shenanigans, blah, blah, blah. So he acknowledges in his book that without Lee Hamilton, Reagan, Casey and Bush could have never got away with the October surpris…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:44:49
William Casey carried_out_attack
October Surprise host_asserted
“on the outside but inside. And you can tell that by some of the different things that he did. Namely, there's no way he pulled off, as the campaign manager, the quote-unquote October surprise, which was the... Fossages in Iran. Yes. He coul…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:23:59
William Casey carried_out_attack
October Surprise host_asserted
“that William Casey orchestrated those meetings in Paris and I forget where the other one was, someplace else over in Europe. There was at least three meetings and the weapons people that it was a brother group, two brothers from Iran origin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:25:22
Mentions (27)
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to basically booby trap Jimmy Carter, make him look like he's a wimp, and get Reagan in. And I have also, there's a colonel that actually flew Bush to a meeting to arrange this whole thing. It's called the October Surprise. That's a pretty …
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And it just so happens that they string Jimmy Carter along in quote unquote negotiations for over a year. And Bush and Alexander Haig make trips to Europe that negotiate, hey, why don't you keep them a little longer until after that was cal…
▶ 49:14
We will send you Stinger missiles in your fight that is beginning to look like it's going to break out with Iraq. So the Iranians hold the hostages. They release them on Inauguration Day when Reagan wins the election and takes office. And t…
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to destroy President Carter's presidency. Why? Well, it has a lot to do with President Carter's October surprise. And him putting a non-CIA CIA director, who he personally knew for many, many years that was trying to clean up the CIA, from …
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In Washington, D.C. So Bob Gray not only was a friend of Bill Casey's, he had worked with him on the 1980 campaign, notably specifically hired for the October surprise. Right after Reagan's inauguration, Gray started his own PR firm called …
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And that it was going to come back to haunt us. And so we had to step up our efforts to combat the communism that didn't exist, at least in America. Casey did not share with them the details of the October surprise or secrets like the cocai…
▶ 49:05
Absolutely. All along. Go ahead. Yeah, it struck me, Colonel, that when you're describing Nixon's role in London in 1979 or 1980, it's like, wow, how ironic. Again, you can see some continuity between this 1968 October surprise and the 1980…
▶ 49:05
Absolutely. All along. Go ahead. Yeah, it struck me, Colonel, that when you're describing Nixon's role in London in 1979 or 1980, it's like, wow, how ironic. Again, you can see some continuity between this 1968 October surprise and the 1980…
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efforts to infiltrate slash sabotage the rescue attempt by Jimmy Carter. I may be mistaken there. But again, the October surprise is the the calling off of the rescue so that it was the secret negotiation that went on by the Reagan administ…
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it is clear the P2 affair is still a topic of discussion among the connoisseurs. The lunch bunch on K Street in Washington is buzzing these days about a 1980s October surprise, which, because it did not take place, cost Jimmy Carter his ree…
▶ 44:38
General Hassan Toufanian, who was the vice minister of defense for procurement, was to force Toufanian to sign a memorandum of understanding. In his book called October Surprise, Gary Sick described the importance of this document. Quote, i…
▶ 54:08
In the end, it never happened. There was no second rescue attempt because it got called off. Carter's most secret operation were thoroughly penetrated by Bush seniors, partisans, not just the cord who would later go on to be part of Iran-Co…
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at the National Security Council during the period when he wrote the book October Surprised, that in the Carter White House, quote, there were individuals who were committed to the defeat of Jimmy Carter and the replacement of him by Ronald…
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they actually employed CIA officers pretending to be PR people all over the world. That Robert Gray was with Donald Gregg and William Casey to go arrange the October surprise. The following week, Gray officially joined the Reagan-Bush campa…
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Greg secretly received non-public material from the Carter White House that even included a copy of a personal letter from Ammar Sadat to Carter. The October surprise, Gary Sick, about the October surprise, Gary Sick wrote what is widely ac…
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to London, Madrid, and Paris, the negotiators dealing with William Casey and the September surprise. The Thatcher regime, already deeply beholden to the Arabs, were the host. A Royal Kuwaiti jet collected the negotiating party from Madrid a…
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I also just wanted to comment, you know, given everything we see going on right now where the deep state or CIA is kind of setting the table for Trump and kind of tremendously qualifying the conditions that the new administration will be fa…
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The other October surprise that also exemplifies this is the 1968 October surprise, which I know you know about and probably talked about somewhere else. But I think it's important maybe we make some comparisons between the 80 October surpr…
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The other October surprise that also exemplifies this is the 1968 October surprise, which I know you know about and probably talked about somewhere else. But I think it's important maybe we make some comparisons between the 80 October surpr…
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record to show that the CIA is building a kind of continuity that sets the stage for the new president in ways designed to really limit the maneuverability of the new elected administration. If possible, I'll just post some in the articles …
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record to show that the CIA is building a kind of continuity that sets the stage for the new president in ways designed to really limit the maneuverability of the new elected administration. If possible, I'll just post some in the articles …
▶ 43:39
For Casey, none of it mattered. Klein, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were all playing a major role in the Iranian initiative that had begun with the October surprise in the 1980 campaign. And you couldn't piss any of them off because th…
▶ 1:23:59
on the outside but inside. And you can tell that by some of the different things that he did. Namely, there's no way he pulled off, as the campaign manager, the quote-unquote October surprise, which was the... Fossages in Iran. Yes. He coul…
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But he is he has blinders on as it pertains to political parties. Again, very smart man. And you wonder how that you can do all of it. And as a matter of fact, it's hilarious when you read the book and how he acknowledges the Republicans, n…
▶ 1:44:49
He was as corrupt as corrupt can be. There was always allegations of election shenanigans, blah, blah, blah. So he acknowledges in his book that without Lee Hamilton, Reagan, Casey and Bush could have never got away with the October surpris…
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Why is the left such good forgetters? They're professional forgetters. They don't ever talk about October surprise of 1968 or 1980. And because to do that, if they actually talked about all of this deep corruption that involves the CIA, the…
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As the middle guy, Israel is a major weapons trafficker of illegal weapons from the U.S. into countries that we're trying to overthrow. We use Israel. That's how the missiles, the original, there was two shipments of missiles to Iran. The o…