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Adnan Khashoggi provided_bridge_financing_for
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“Loho PLC. That stands for London Rhodesia. Rowland is a close associate of Adan Khashoggi, the famous weapons dealer, who had approached Rowland to help in the bridge financing of the Iranian arms for hostage deal. In an interview, y'all ai…”
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Jimmy Carter carried_out_attack
Iran hostage crisis host_asserted
“is that because Casey was affiliated with the CIA unofficially, was the Halloween massacre, that the destruction of the covert capability on the books, because they didn't destroy it off the books, of the CIA was squarely on Carter, and the…”
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George H.W. Bush covered_up
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“We got evidence 10, 15 years later that Bush's CIA connections were negotiating behind the scenes with Iran, telling them not to release the hostages until the election was over. That was sort of what they call the October surprise. Everyon…”
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is who's represented in, like the heck martyr guy, in Iran as well. And this is at the exact same time that those same people affiliated with each other take over the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November of that year, if you recall. So now we…
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You have to scratch your head and wonder if that was not. And I'm not saying it is. But the timing of all of this makes that now completely suspect to me. Because the CIA is trying to drum up business in funneling our tax dollars into this …
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If you want to bundle the money for Reagan, he needed these people's backing. And so he picked George H.W. as his running mate. Interesting choice in many ways. What was going on at the time for the election was Iran. Iran had taken the U.S…
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We got evidence 10, 15 years later that Bush's CIA connections were negotiating behind the scenes with Iran, telling them not to release the hostages until the election was over. That was sort of what they call the October surprise. Everyon…
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called The House of Bush, House of Sod, that's on my sub stack. I highly recommend you read that because it shows from way back the intimate relationship between the Saudis and the Bush family, and it will knock your socks off. Yeah, there …
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Jimmy Carter here. It was at the same time that the Iran hostage crisis is going on, that the enticement of the Soviets into Afghanistan happens. Right. So you are setting off the world's largest weapons trafficking event.…
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he was on Italian TV, and they asked him about Gladio, and he immediately said, like, fuck you, and stormed out of the interview. Oh, now, we just covered Stanfield Turner and Jimmy Carter and the Halloween Massacre and all of that. I have …
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hindsight, people remember all of the bad things about President Carter. Fuel shortages, the Soviets in Afghanistan, the Iran hostage situation, the Panama Canal. And what I find most interesting about all of those things is…
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through concessions over basically all of the Middle East oil means that we could have at any time not had a fuel shortage, but yet we had one. And as a result of that, you know that that was a planned attack against us and the Carter admin…
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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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And he failed because of fiascos like the Iran. And we know that the Iran hostage situation was then utilized by the former CIA director to keep those hostages, those American citizens, as hostages through the election. And they were all re…
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Where I believe it. When Carter was president, we had the iron hostage crisis, but all of a sudden Reagan's in office and all of a sudden he's the hero and they're coming home. Did the Republicans play with that to get the negotiations to h…
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But they got the ancillary benefit was all of the organized crime. Yeah. Sorry for the rant. Sorry for the rant. Travis, go ahead. I just wanted to clarify the facts about the Iranian hostage situation. Reagan had nothing to do with it. Car…
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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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his insertion into the whole thing in order to hold hostage the Carter administration and basically ensure that Jimmy Carter was not reelected. And he just so happens to be, and again, I don't like Jimmy Carter, so don't get that impression…
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the governments and interfered in elections. He's the only one. And so his entire administration for the last year he was in office was hamstrung by this Iran hostage situation, which if you dig into that, you find out that the majority of …
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How the hell did a bunch of dumbass students overthrow one of our embassies with armed guards? And so, again, with our Gladio glasses, when you go back and you look at it, it's completely something. And we know about the October surprise wh…
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Argo won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2012. The film starred Ben Affleck as a CIA agent named Tony Mendez, who poses as a Hollywood producer scouting locations in Iran. He helps to rescue six Americans who slipped away from the U.S…
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stormed the U.S. embassy and took 66 Americans hostage. You guys know that we have done extensive research into that event. And I am very skeptical at this point that the Iranian hostage situation took place in the way that it was described…
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No, but the one that happened in the late 70s. There was another oil thing that happened to screw up Carter. That was Iran, and in particular, the hostage rescue. I mean, Carter in his autobiography basically says that there was this huge c…
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And there was just calamity after calamity was Carter's comment. It was almost like the whole thing was designed to fail, was basically what he says. Yes, it was to make him look bad. And what we have known and no one ever talks about is we…
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time that I go back with my Gladio glasses on and read in one of these books, like you said, the rescue attempt, they only had the exact number of aircraft that never, ever, ever, ever in a military operation do you only have the number of …
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reopen the investigation Lowenstein gets assassinated and Jimmy Carter is basically set up with the whole although it happened before but the Iran Contra or excuse me the Iranian hostage the overthrow of the embassy and you can just see all…
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to Jimmy Carter. There's someone listening to Jimmy Carter being talked to, and they have the overthrow of the embassy. They're going to keep the hostages to sabotage the election. You just see these things going parallel with each other. M…
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that had general officers on the board of it. So, all right, to the book. The worst crisis of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the capture of the Tehran embassy in 1979 and the taking of American hostages as early as 1972, which is the date BC…
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advanced prostate cancer treatment. In September 1979, Carter approved the visit and the dying Shah was flown in. Almost immediately, it was apparent that his treatment was seen as a slap in the face to the Iranian people. On November 1979,…
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is CIA as well, that, I don't know, that could, that's a total assumption, that could have been part of the whole ratcheting up of the chaos. While some of the hostages were released two weeks later, 53 remained incarcerated, and Carter's h…
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And also something I didn't know until I did that thread the other day is that in the releasing, they released women and they released several black hostages because at the time they're radicalizing black Muslims inside the United States to…
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no responsible authority in Tehran, then to handle Iran's frozen military assets during the hostage crisis, and finally to resolve the disputed claims of the two parties at a special tribunal established at the Hague in 1981, which of cours…
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And we created their national police, the SABAC. So they're basically a vassal state of the U.S. And they have all of this military technology exchange, which would kind of mean the U.S. was facilitating Israel getting nuclear weapons. Just…
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order to carry out a mission to rescue the hostages. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigned in protest. On April 24th, the mission commenced. Nearly everything that could go wrong went wrong. A plane collision at a remote point killed eigh…
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One of the sources stole a copy of President Carter's briefing book, which the Republican campaign then used to prepare Reagan for his debate with Carter on October 28th. And I actually remember that happening. William Casey and others in t…
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The same as LBJ did with Nixon. So Gates has a reason to be going over to Virginia to talk to Casey and to James Baker. On the second issue about the October surprise, the most important information Reagan and Bush campaign was getting from…
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The first approach to Carter administration on this issue of arms for hostages came up in April 1980, the 178th day of captivity for Colonel Charles Wesley Scott. Scott spoke fluent Prussian and was one of the most informed of the American …
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After the failed rescue attempt, Scott was abruptly moved from Tehran to Tabriz for a very special meeting May 1980, May 1st, May Day, in what had been the American consulate in Tabriz. Colonel Scott met with, I'm not even going to say this…
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He decided to become basically a double agent to the Reagan-Bush campaign. Casey asked the Shahimi brothers to arrange a meeting with someone in Iran who had the authority to deal on the hostages. The Shahimi connection did not reach to Kho…
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openings that the Carter administration and the Hashimis were trying to make with the new Iranian government. Years later, Greg denied that he had any contact with any of them. He did not deny that he had contact with his old boss, Ted Shac…
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at a hotel with a Carter administration official. That meeting opened a dialogue and President Bonnie Sauter reacted favorably enough that he agreed to begin a serious negotiation of releasing the hostages. I think this was a bait and switc…
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opened the discussion by asking Casey what was the purpose of the meeting. Casey replied with a question of his own. Was the Islamic Republic ready to deal with the Republicans? It was impossible to establish good relationship between the t…
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Casey said that that would be impossible at this time since the Republicans weren't in power, but it could be done after they come to power. As the arms, perhaps that could be done through a third country, which we now know as Israel, unquo…
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This time, the news he carried was electrifying. According to Hashimi, Khomeini had agreed to Casey's terms. The hostages would be released on the day of Reagan's inauguration, though the Iranians would continue to go through the motions wi…
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Carter. On September 22nd, 1980, while the American hostages waited for lunch at a prison, an Iraqi MiG attack shook the prison. Saddam Hussein had started the Iran-Iraq war. At the same time, 45,000 Iraqi troops invaded Iran across the Ara…
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another important Reagan supporter, along to the meeting. Later, none of the participants could remember the name of the guy who they met with. Isn't that weird? Allen had claimed that a memo he wrote about the meeting is missing. Silberman…
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through James Baker. But Lobby was also one of the arms brokers that Edwin Wilson used, along with Richard Secord and von Marbach. Lobby said that what was discussed at the meeting was F4 parts in exchange for the hostages. Lobby agreed tha…
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Barry Riley, who arrested British gunrunner Ian Smalley, S-M-A-L-L-E-Y, said that Smalley threatened on June 18, 1982, which is two years in the future from this time, to reveal that the British Ministry of Defense was involved with fulfill…
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Bonnie Sautter. In his book, My Turn to Speak, I ran the revolution and secret deals with the U.S. This is a quote from his book. I have proof of contacts between Khomeini and the supporters of Ronald Reagan as early as the spring of 1980. …
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October surprise. That blew my mind away. All right. Anybody want Mike to come up? You're welcome to come up. While we're waiting on them, SR-71, Cousin It, y'all have anything? Yes, ma'am. I most certainly do. Of course, I'm one of the old…
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And I recall to this day when it happened early on, I was a Lance Corporal at the time. But the thought that ran through my head at that point in time was those people were going to be there for over a year. And of course, this was during t…
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Yeah, I lived during that period too. So I don't know if the hostage crisis was organic. I think it was manipulated because you're talking about strategy of tension and distraction. So Ted Koppel on Nightline every night, it was day 132. So…
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Later that year of 79, in November of 79, the Iranian hostage crisis happens and you have the overthrow of the Shah and, you know, all kinds of crap goes down. Now, again, in hindsight, with the fact that much of the elements that were invo…
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Just again, I'm having deja vu here because isn't that exactly what Trump was saying Venezuela was doing? So it's already been done and it's been done for the exact same reason as far as destabilization. So I do see a hidden hand in some of…
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And again, if you go back and you look at many after like 10, 15 years articles that were published about that attempted rescue, every single thing about it seemed like it was sabotaged, like it was meant to fail. But back then, nobody woul…
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In the same election cycle, you have the October surprise where Bush is negotiating with Iran to keep the hostages past the November election in order to then release them once Reagan gets into office to kind of kickstart his presidency, wh…
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And I also looked at Carter's presidency, like from the outside, if you want to say, kind of like what's going on now in some respects, because during his presidency, there was the Iranian hostage situation that was going on throughout the …
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You know, and then just it's just kind of crazy, like the parallels, if you want to say. But it's just interesting also with the pause, too. So the Iranian hostage crisis started in November 79. So he'd actually been in the presidency for a…
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Hi, Colonel. Just something I forgot. We had talked about this in a previous space. With the Iran hostage situation, we had the advent of the tie, the yellow ribbon around the old oak tree.…
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this tie a yellow ribbon, this mass inculcation into our society, and it brought in the Muslim Brotherhood into power, it does appear. Actually, from my research, it seems that the coup began long before 1979, maybe back in the 1940s, but a…
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This is most striking when it comes to special forces. Bull Simon, S-I-M-O-N-S, in retirement after the Sante raid, became a security consultant and in 1979 organized a daring rescue of two American businessmen held prisoner in Iran. The mi…
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Another legendary figure was Major Richard Meadows, veteran of many of the forays into Laos and North Vietnam. He was the man sent into Iran to check on the ground the feasibility of a hostage rescue. Meadows opened his own security consult…
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the Halloween massacre and largely gutted the covert operations. So the book goes on and talks a little bit about the Halloween massacre. And it says still Turner strongly resisted any suggestion that he needed to notify Congress ahead of t…
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So nothing, again, is as what it seemed in our history. So having said that, weird that the Shah of Iran happened. You get the hostage situation, and it was the hostage situation that was used in order to bring the October surprise because …
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and how spies operate. Devices have become more subtle, weapons more lethal, aircraft more capable. The secrecy of these activities make it difficult to apply conventional techniques when secret warriors get in trouble. That is what happene…
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Student radicals had taken over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, and he got a phone call. Outside Washington, another middle-of-the-night phone call awakened the director of the CIA, Admiral Stansfield Turner. The CIA duty officer informed him t…
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In February, the Iranian revolutionary government had ejected demonstrators and restored the embassy and the freedom of the U.S. diplomats. The former Shah of Iran had just been permitted to come to the United States for medical treatment, …
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participate in the conversations. Neither the chairman, General David Jones, or Colonel Beckwith liked the initial plan. Both wanted more striking power. Delta only had 120 troopers, yet every man and pound of equipment inserted to give the…
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and Cyrus Vance, which was his Secretary of State, about the poor quality of political intelligence regarding Iran. Similarly, more detailed criticism emerged from a House Intelligence Committee study repeated extensively in the press and o…
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Diplomats were unable to preserve friendly relations with the Islamic Republic under the Ayatollah Khomeini. As already recounted, Iranian militants took over the U.S. embassy on November 4th. National Security Advisor Brzezinski ordered pr…
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In Tehran, the militants released 13 blacks and women hostages and later freed one man, Richard Queen, who had contracted MS during captivity. Otherwise, diplomatic efforts were of no avail. On January 29th, 1980, when the Canadians smuggle…
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Rescue mission obliged Carter through the sec-deaf Harold Brown. Yeah, he comes back up later in the Clinton administration, Harold Brown. And the Joint Chiefs of Staff to reveal the existence of Operation Eagle Claw. The Carter administrat…
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during the Trump administration is how many people we've had imprisoned in other countries. And yet you hear that expression, hostage crisis, get thrown around periodically. Is it only a crisis when they need news media attention? Well...…
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Given the fact that we've had hostages like those two guys, Robert Fectow or Downey and the Fectow guy were hostages in China for 20 years and you never heard boo about them in the media because if you did, then you would have figured out t…
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On my own timeline, I'll tag the colonel too so you can retweet it. Awesome. So yeah, really fascinating chapter. Some of the names that keep being recycled. Yeah, and it's interesting because that kind of dovetails into what Bridget was sa…
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We're on page 464, concluding the chapter Rogue Elephant to Resurrection. We stopped when we were talking about Desert One and the Carter administration's and his Cyrus Vance talking about that operation.…
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Vought's chief operations planner, Colonel Robert Dutton, had three distinguished flying crosses for his operations in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Dutton had served under Secord in Iran, too. So this is like old home week. The Joint Ta…
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had never included a complete rehearsal of all of the phases of the operation, which is ridiculous. Honey Badger was to correct these deficiencies. Even worse than before, however, the problem was intelligence. The Iranian dispersed the hos…
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went to General Sikord after having been turned down by him for lucrative business contracts. Now Sikord put Hakim in touch with his Air Force intelligence. A flood of reports came from Hakim and other sources. General Sikord said there wer…
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because of the abrupt claim that the CIA all of a sudden had all the answers. Joint Task Force Intelligence had no information to corroborate anything that the CIA said. General Secord actually escalated this dispute up the chain of command…
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They intended to go to Congress later to get a supplemental, but Honey Badger never went down. Instead, diplomatic prospects improved and an accommodation was arranged. And after 144 days of captivity, the Americans were released on January…
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that the CIA just produced out of its rear end was completely wrong. But they were sure that it was correct. Fiasco in Iran hostage crisis crystallized opinions on the need to strengthen special warfare capability. The talent necessary to c…
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The operations in Angola, Vietnam, and Laos, Congo, and the Bay of Pigs all involved bringing people in from outside the Klan. No kidding. Afghanistan would be unusual in being led almost exclusively by a particular Klan. In this case, the …
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a Soviet Vietnam, but they did. That might have been the idea at the White House, and it was. When Howard Hart replaced John Reagan as station chief in Islamabad, Casey's instructions were simply to go out and kill Russians. Hart had won th…
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El Lucia Airways owned or leased two Boeing 707s and at least one civilianized C-130. One of its aircraft carried the Shah from Egypt to the U.S. in 78, an event that catalyzed the Iran hostage crisis. Because again, they all knew it was a …
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company CIA created to further operations in Iran during the hostage crisis. Activities there and elsewhere depended on the use of these techniques. Reagan administration inherited a program or at least a problem in Iran. The hostages came …
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using Israel as a cutout. So we're going to fund both sides of this, as we always do with our money. On both tracks, gathering intelligence became the object. Sure. There is no evidence that the CIA itself sold arms to Iran at this stage. T…
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You can just give us the weapons back. His request led to a national security group meeting at the White House on August 8th, which appears to have been the Israeli go-ahead. Deals with Iran, many deals with Iran followed, related both to o…
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He is a commissioned military officer, an agent of the government. McFarlane called back to go along on one mission in May, thought that he could talk directly to the Iranians. He didn't. A divergence developed. U.S. officials assumed that …
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The Iranian arms deal, together with the events simultaneously occurring in Nicaragua, ignited a firestorm during the Reagan presidency. Three hostages were released, Reverend Benjamin Ware, Father Lawrence Jenko, and David Jacobson. Reagan…
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job, but by the spring of 86, he was pretty burnt out. Secord was doubly pleased at this time, therefore, to hear that his friend, Colonel Robert Dutton, had retired from the Air Force. Secord had served with him during the Iran hostage mis…
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Loho PLC. That stands for London Rhodesia. Rowland is a close associate of Adan Khashoggi, the famous weapons dealer, who had approached Rowland to help in the bridge financing of the Iranian arms for hostage deal. In an interview, y'all ai…
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Beneke was one of the first people to talk publicly about the October surprise, the trips that members of the Reagan team made in order to cut a deal with the Iranians to hold the American hostages until after the election. So, of course, t…
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is that because Casey was affiliated with the CIA unofficially, was the Halloween massacre, that the destruction of the covert capability on the books, because they didn't destroy it off the books, of the CIA was squarely on Carter, and the…