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Gary Sick talking about the original October Surprise [1]

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Date: 2023-03-18  

The term “October Surprise” was invented by Reagan campaign aides, maybe William Casey himself, to try and paint the hostage story as a dirty trick.

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Gary Sick was a middle east expert who served on the presidential security councils for Ford, Carter, and Reagan. A stand up guy, who the Republicans tried to drag through the mud after he broke the story.

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The story goes that William Casey met with Iranian revolutionary figures and cut a deal where if they would hold on to the hostages until after the election (thus denying Carter a bombshell headline) the new Reagan administration would give them some goodies.

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The media tried very hard to prove that Casey wasn’t the bag man, and they came close to a shut out. There was about ½ of 1 day in Casey’s schedule that couldn’t be accounted for.

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It now seems that Casey was not the actual bag man, just the higher up running the bag man.

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Here is Gary Sick in a 1991 interview promoting his new book “October Surprise.”

(at 4:50 “I’ve got a modem, a fax machine… everything I need”

ooohhhh, a modem, the newest star trek stuff. he he he (snark))

There are only two comments and 29 likes to that video.

Maybe we should all give it a thumbs up to try and get it trending.

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