I still get spitting mad every time I think about the illegal, shameless, treacherous dirty dealing done by the Reagan-Bush people to thwart President Jimmy Carter's attempts to free the Iranian hostages.

Bill Casey was there, and so was Jamshid Hashemi, who tells his story in this article by Robert Parry:
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"Casey came with another gentleman who was American," Jamshid continued. "There were two meetings, that we had at different dates. ... What was specifically asked was when these hostages should be released and it was the wish of Mr. Casey that they be released after the inauguration. ... The result was that it was agreed that the hostages would be released after the inauguration date of Mr. Reagan."

"The payments?" I asked (interviewer).

"Arms, a series of arms."

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"Robert Parry has written a number of stories pursuing the strong evidence that Reagan and Bush made an all-out effort to sabotage Jimmy Carter's efforts to win the release of the Iranian-held hostages before the November election, the episode known as the October Surprise.
In 1995, Parry became privy to a host of files that had been locked in a deserted bathroom in DC. Read about what he found when he started going through these files in this series of stories (descriptions from Parry's October Surprise page:

There was no "October Surprise" because people like William Casey were working behind the scenes to make sure it didn't happen. These illegal deals promised arms for the Ayatollah in exchange for a delay in releasing the hostages until after Ronald Reagan was sworn in.

This is the legacy of the Reagan-Bush years: dirty deals with evil men.

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