The Paris meetings were organized to put the final touches on an agreement that had been worked out earlier. The essence of that agreement was that Iran would release the hostages to the Reagan-Bush forces after the election, in return for military equipment to be delivered through Israel.
p146 October Surprise - Gary Sick
The Consortium - new files on the October Surprise
...White House chief of staff Baker said it was Casey who had provided him with briefing papers that President Carter had used to prepare himself for the nationally televised debate in the 1980 presidential campaign.
Veil : The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 - Bob Woodward p.310
[Reagan] He had sold first himself and then America on the belief that you could cut taxes, grow the military, and balance the budget all at the same time. You couldn't; when Bush called it voodoo economics, he got it essentially right. Taxes actually rose for most people in the Reagan years.
Quest for the Presidency 1992 - Peter Goldman, Andrew Murr, Tom Matthews
more on Reagan1981
Take the savings and loan scandal for instance. In 1980 the Reagan administration deregulated this sleepy home-lending industry in the belief that it would allow a neglected and uncompetitive financial service sector to grow. Eight years later, economist John Kenneth Galbraith called the result "the greatest financial disaster in American history." More than $500 billion had disappeared into thin air.
The Bureau - Diarmuid Jeffreys p.325
S&L Coverage Ignores Root Causes and
Progressive Options from Best of Extra
more on debt1990
By 1980, researcher Tom Adams had compiled a catalog of about two hundred mutilation incidents that involved sightings of UFOs or helicopters.
Alien Contact - Timothy Good p.53
more on UFOs1982
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