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- <text id=92TT2725>
- <title>
- Dec. 07, 1992: November Bust
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- NATION
- November Bust
- </hdr><body>
- <p>A Senate report finds no evidence of a hostage deal, but
- questions remain
- </p>
- <p> It was an exoneration without much conviction. The Senate
- Foreign Relations Committee's investigation of allegations that
- the Reagan campaign connived with Iranian authorities to delay
- the release of 52 American hostages during the 1980 election
- concluded that "the great weight of evidence is that there was
- no such deal." But the committee report did charge that the
- conduct of Reagan campaign chairman and later CIA Director
- William Casey verged "on the outer limits of propriety" when he
- secretly gathered intelligence on the delicate U.S.-Iranian
- hostage negotiations in 1980. The investigation, run on a
- shoestring budget, never did find such critical evidence as
- Casey's passport or hundreds of hours of vital FBI surveillance
- tapes. Perhaps a parallel House investigation expected next year
- will be more enlightening.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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