FILE 8 PREVIEW: HEADLINE: October Surprise Fits Pattern of Republican Assaults on Democracy AUTHOR: Craig Unger SUMMARY: Craig Unger views the October Surprise as part of a consistent Republican pattern of relying on adversarial foreign countries, spannin
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🗓️ 21 September 2025
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| 0:28.8 | This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Notcher. Craig Unger's new book is Den of Spies, Reagan, Carter and the Secret History of the Treason that stole the White House. |
| 0:34.1 | These many decades later, this is American presidential history and therefore caution is well advised |
| 0:42.4 | however we have a mystery to solve and perhaps it's solved in front of me but I have the author |
| 0:50.3 | here to ask on January 20 20th, 1980, 81, Ronald Reagan is sworn in his president of the United |
| 0:59.8 | States, inauguration day. And as he begins his inaugural speech, the hostages, I believe, are still in custody, incarcerated, trapped in Tehran. |
| 1:14.5 | And as he ends his speech, the announcement comes that they've been freed. |
| 1:20.2 | Is that accurate, Craig? |
| 1:21.3 | Did it happen that way? |
| 1:22.9 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:24.1 | In fact, Jimmy Carter, they had agreed to release them while Jimmy Carter was president. |
| 1:29.5 | And this was the last day of Jimmy Carter's presidency. He got zero sleep. He may have napped on a couch in the Oval Office. |
| 1:38.1 | He was making sure again and again that every dot, every eye had been dotted, every tea had been crossed, and he kept |
| 1:47.7 | waiting anxiously for them to release them during his administration. |
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