OCTOBER UNSURPRISED
Author Craig Unger made use of Consortium News founder Robert Parry's files to complete his new book, Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House , about the orginal October Surprise, when the Ronald Reagan campaign made a secret deal with the Iranian revolutionary government in 1980 to keep the American hostages in captivity until Reagan's Inauguration Day in exchange for arms covertly sold through Israel. Unger was grateful to Parry for his groundbreaking work on this scandal but veered off course into swallowing the Russiagate story, which Parry was in the forefront of debunking, and which Unger mistakenly equates to the 1980 October Surprise. Unger spoke at the National Press Club in Washington this week.
