![]() ![]() Embassy in Tehran in 1979 had been released before the 1980 election.īut Bill Casey was determined not to let that happen. He said that he believed then-and now-that Carter might have won if the American hostages seized at the U.S. In April, the four of us interviewed Stuart Spencer, who was a chief strategist and architect of Reagan’s 1980 general election campaign. ![]() We think there’s now enough evidence to say definitively that Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager, the late William Casey, ran a multipronged covert operation to manipulate the 1980 presidential election-and that these acts of betrayal might have affected the outcome. Forty-three years after the climactic events of 1980, the four of us-all steeped in the history of the Carter administration-believe that it’s time to move past conspiracy theories to hard historical conclusions about the so-called October Surprise. ![]()
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