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THE WEEK, Page 23NATIONNovember Bust
A Senate report finds no evidence of a hostage deal, but
questions remain
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.