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In reply to the discussion: A Four-Decade Secret: One Man's Story of Sabotaging Carter's Re-election [View all]Kid Berwyn
(18,433 posts)23. Obvious, yet covered up.
Media covered up 1980 Iran hostage deal, the October surprise, author tells Club
by Vincent Morris
National Press Club, October 24, 2024
Excerpt
Unger, whose book Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason that Stole the White House, published Oct. 1, says that the issues around the case are larger than questions about our national security apparatus and the role of international politics in a domestic election; its about the media.
One of the great disgraces of our national media in covering this up, said (author Craig) Unger, who has worked as deputy editor of the New York Observer and editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine. It was a great scandal and they twisted it and turned it on its ass.
Although some of the history is still contested, the facts are not. President Jimmy Carter was unable to get American hostages released from Iran. In November 1980, he lost the election to Reagan. In January 1981, just minutes after Reagan was sworn in, the hostages were released.
In his remarks, Unger described how he first came upon the story many years later and turned it into a 10,000 word explosive piece for Esquire magazine. Not long after the piece hit, Unger says he was hired by Newsweek magazine and turned loose to do more investigative work; but thats when things went south, he says.
Unger claims that soon after settling in at Newsweek, his stories about this topic were spiked by editors there. Worse, they printed stories that essentially washed over the explosive charges about the hostage deal, he said.
Unger reserved his most intense criticism for the Washington Post, which owned Newsweek at the time and, he says, had an outsize role in quietly killing the story. Hes also equally critical of Congressional Democrats, who he claims never pursued the dramatic charges as earnestly as they should have.
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Source: https://www.press.org/newsroom/media-covered-1980-iran-hostage-deal-october-surprise-author-tells-club
by Vincent Morris
National Press Club, October 24, 2024
Excerpt
Unger, whose book Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason that Stole the White House, published Oct. 1, says that the issues around the case are larger than questions about our national security apparatus and the role of international politics in a domestic election; its about the media.
One of the great disgraces of our national media in covering this up, said (author Craig) Unger, who has worked as deputy editor of the New York Observer and editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine. It was a great scandal and they twisted it and turned it on its ass.
Although some of the history is still contested, the facts are not. President Jimmy Carter was unable to get American hostages released from Iran. In November 1980, he lost the election to Reagan. In January 1981, just minutes after Reagan was sworn in, the hostages were released.
In his remarks, Unger described how he first came upon the story many years later and turned it into a 10,000 word explosive piece for Esquire magazine. Not long after the piece hit, Unger says he was hired by Newsweek magazine and turned loose to do more investigative work; but thats when things went south, he says.
Unger claims that soon after settling in at Newsweek, his stories about this topic were spiked by editors there. Worse, they printed stories that essentially washed over the explosive charges about the hostage deal, he said.
Unger reserved his most intense criticism for the Washington Post, which owned Newsweek at the time and, he says, had an outsize role in quietly killing the story. Hes also equally critical of Congressional Democrats, who he claims never pursued the dramatic charges as earnestly as they should have.
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Source: https://www.press.org/newsroom/media-covered-1980-iran-hostage-deal-october-surprise-author-tells-club
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So Reagan was using the captivity of these people for his political purposes much like Iran did
Walleye
Monday
#2
And reporters knew it too, but were working on behalf of intel svc, nothing new but that's the reality of the MSM
msfiddlestix
Tuesday
#91
Recall NPR reporting the strange story at that time about how, prior to his inauguration,
allegorical oracle
Monday
#38
i believe gov. connally was in the vehicle with jfk when he was murdered in texas at that
dawn5651
Monday
#17
I mean the fact they were released before the damn bible Raygun laid his hand on cooled off was it for many n/t
Cheezoholic
Monday
#54
Of course, that lit a green light for our upcoming felonius POTUS, who was *convicted* and still elected ...
eppur_se_muova
Monday
#83
Let's face it: all the Republican presidents since Eisenhower have been crooks
MadameButterfly
Monday
#10
This was a well know dirty deal perpetrated by the Republicans. It came out after Reagan was sworn in as president.
patphil
Monday
#12
In 1980 The NY Times published stories that there was no connection @ all between the Reagan's ....
Botany
Monday
#13
Mr. Webb won a Pulitzer price for his work on the CIA/crack/cocaine/Contra connections
Botany
Tuesday
#96
Just like the law enforcement official who worked for Florida's D.O.T. and discovered the corruption..
Botany
Tuesday
#98
They then sold Iran missiles and aircraft parts used the $ for running Crack!
IbogaProject
Monday
#16
I'm still willing to believe that the failed and deadly hostage rescue attempt was sabotaged
NBachers
Monday
#18
It cost the older brother of a childhood friend his life. He was a Marine up by Laos and the DMZ ...
Botany
Monday
#58
Reagan was a POS when Governor of CA and he wouldn't have beaten Carter in a fair fight.
bluesbassman
Monday
#51