7/8: 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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🗓️ 14 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Batchel with Craig Unger. |
| 0:03.6 | The new book is Den of Spies, Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason that stole the White House. |
| 0:09.2 | October surprise. |
| 0:11.2 | So far we've heard from all the players in the Republican Party, all the players in the Carter White House, |
| 0:17.2 | the go-betweens for Bill Casey, his network reaching back to the OSS. We've heard from |
| 0:23.4 | major publications, Newsweek and Esquire. We have information gathered together for AP and for |
| 0:32.4 | publication, investigations by the Joint Committee, 919 92, investigating the October surprise story. |
| 0:39.3 | Gary Sixth book about it, Gary Sixth op-ed page. |
| 0:42.6 | We talked to all that. |
| 0:43.9 | What about Iran? |
| 0:45.6 | It is now the fall of 2014. |
| 0:48.7 | Craig arrives in Iran. |
| 0:50.2 | He's got a visa for a week. |
| 0:52.2 | What was your mission, Craig? |
| 0:53.5 | What were you looking for? |
| 0:55.1 | Well, I figured if the October surprise took place, if there was a deal between the Republicans, Iran, there had to be people in Iran who knew about it. |
| 1:04.3 | And one of the key people I wanted to interview was a guy named Mosen Rafiqqqqqqqqqq. |
| 1:10.5 | And he had been an ally of Ayatollah Khomeini from the very start. |
| 1:15.6 | He had been in Paris when Khomeini was in exile there. |
| 1:19.6 | And he accompanied Khomeini on the flight back to Tehran, at which point Khomeini was greeted by millions of people in the streets celebrating |
| 1:30.3 | his return. And Rafi Duke was actually chauffeering the car as they drove Khomeini through the |
| 1:37.3 | streets. He later became head of arms. He soon became head of arms procurement for Khomeini for Khomeini's new revolutionary |
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