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Monday, September 16, 2002

Parry, Robert: Trick or Treason

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Parry, Robert (1993) Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 350 pp.
Trick or Treason

This is by far the best of the three books that cover the October Surprise operation. That is the name used to describe the alleged secret Republican Party deal made with Iran to hold the US Embassy hostages until after the Nov. 1980 election. The election came, Reagan won in a landslide, and the hostages were released by Iran during Reagan’s inaugural speech. The quid in this quid pro quo was the US unfreezing Iran’s accounts in the US (which were frozen by Carter when the hostages were taken) and the sale of weapons and spare parts for Iran’s US-equipped military, which had just been attacked by Iraq.

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