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6/8: Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House Audio CD – Unabridged, October 1, 2024 by Craig Unger (Author)

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6/8: Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House Audio CD – Unabridged, October 1, 2024 by  Craig Unger  (Author)

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0:00.0

Greg Unger is here, my colleague and friend, Den of Spies, is his new book, Reagan, Carter,

0:09.0

and the Secret History of the Treason that Stole the White House.

0:12.0

Ben Manashi, the agent for the Israeli military intelligence, rogd, has produced documents and made many interviews, and part of the information he's convened

0:23.8

still remains a whopper, that in July, in October of 1980, weeks before the election,

0:32.8

George Bush, George H.W. Bush, the man who was nominated at the time to be vice president, and we know

0:39.9

now has served as President of the United States during the investigation run by the Senate and the

0:46.0

House in 9192. The allegation is that he traveled to Paris and met with representatives of Iran in order to seal the deal.

0:57.0

Craig, the information was always less vital than we have for the meeting in Madrid.

1:05.0

DeMorosch is suspect of having set it up in Paris, but there are alibis, and one of them is meeting with Potter Stewart,

1:13.8

a Supreme Court Associate Justice, and his wife.

1:17.2

And Potter Stewart's gone, so there's no source of information there.

1:22.8

Please explain what we do have about that so-called meeting.

1:27.2

Luncheon, I believe.

1:29.0

Well, I have to give credit to my late colleague, Bob Perry, who really punctured this and

1:36.0

several other alibis.

1:37.7

But he actually interviewed Potter Stewart's widow, and she would not confirm it.

1:45.0

And she said, but she said, oh, you better listen to what the president tells you, which is,

1:53.0

Bob Perry wasn't exactly the kind of guy who did that, and he went further.

1:59.0

And I have to say, in this case, he went further than almost any investigative reporter I know,

2:04.0

because once he got the Secret Service reports, some of which appeared to exculpate President Bush,

2:13.6

he actually went to the Secret Service agents involved and interviewed them.

2:18.9

And he began to realize, no, they really couldn't back up the story.

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