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To: robnhood who wrote (67241)	11/26/2006 7:54:45 PM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 312353

Just did a quick google search -- There is no Santa <<The Reagan-Bush campaign was afraid Carter would rescue the hostages and win the election. Before the election, there were many rumors and security leaks about "October Surprise" hostage rescue attempt. Richard Werthlin, Reagan-Bush 1980 presidential campaign pollster, determined that an "October surprise" would end their chances of winning the election. [25] On April 20, 1980, days before the actual mission, Mike Copeland ran a hypothetical hostage rescue story in the Washington Star that almost exactly predicted the real thing. Members of the Reagan-Bush campaign formed the October Surprise Working Group, to keep Carter from bringing hostages successfully home. [25] Richard Allen, Reagan's foreign policy advisor, was the head of the group. The group included William Casey, Reagan's 1980 campaign manager, who was later appointed CIA director. Casey was at the heart of the Iran-Contra Scandal, and died before he could testify. The group also included Vice Presidential candidate George Bush, who was eventually elected President of the United States in 1988. Bush did not have any campaign or public appearances from the 21st to the 27th of October, a week before the election. [25] (Why would they want to keep him out of sight before the election, like they did Dan Quayle?) According to the October Surprise theory, members of the Reagan-Bush campaign cut a secret deal with the Ayatollah Khomeini, to keep the hostages from being released before the November 4, 1980 presidential election. Richard Allen met with Robert McFarlane, and an alleged Iranian emissary, in early October 1980, in Washington D.C. They allegedly made a deal to delay release of the hostages until after the election. [25] McFarlane and Allen acknowledge the meeting, but deny that a deal was cut. Barbara Honegger, a researcher with the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980, recalls being told then that "Dick cut a deal." i.e. Richard Allen. [2] [25] Mansur Rafisadeh, former Chief of SAVAK (the Shah's secret police), and CIA informer, said CIA elements loyal to Reagan arranged a deal to keep the hostages in Iran until Reagan was in the White House. [3] [25] Abol Hassan Bani-Sadr, president of Iran at the time of the alleged deal, said the meeting took place some time during the last two weeks in October 1980, and that Allen and McFarlane met with Hashimi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, who was the main Iranian contact in subsequent secret arms trading revealed by the the Iran-Contra Scandal. [23] [25] >> donhopkins.com

To: robnhood who wrote (67241)	11/26/2006 8:36:31 PM
From: hank2010	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 312353

Not googling, but going by memory, robin Hood, here is a precis of the story. When the students attacked the US embassy there were 6 hostages out and about who were smart enough to not go back to the US embassy. One of the Americans knew where one of the Cdn diplomatic staff was renting a house. They went to the house and the Canadians hid them until a journalist from a newspaper in Quebec found out about the 6. They asked him to hold the story, but he only agreed for a couple of days. As Marcos said the Cdn Ambassador, Ken Taylor made the decision to issue the 6 Canadian passports and fly them out of the country (via commercial)immediately. It was an all Canadian show!