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why the hell wasn’t this october surprise story followed for years?

SOMEONE IN THE REAGAN CAMP ap­proached the Iranian hostage takers in 1980 about not making a deal with Pres­i­dent Carter until after the US elec­tions of that year. Why wasn’t this story fol­lowed by the media and others for years ex­cept for a few people? And you know what they called us, right? [Read more] “why the hell wasn’t this october surprise story followed for years?”