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The 1980 October Surprise: While 250 Hostages Were Held Captive In Iran, The Presidential Election Was Going Down To The Wire. That Election Was Dead-Even About Ten Days Going Into Election Day. Inside The Reagan Campaign, There Were Fears That The Hostages Could Become Carter's Secret Weapon. In The Back Of Many Peoples Minds Was The Belief That Carter Could Pull Off An October Surprise. Did Reagan Campaign Director William J. Casey Deceive American Voters By Striking A Deal With Iran To Delay The Release Of The Hostages? When The Hostages Were Released A Mere Thirty Minutes After Reagan Became President, Many People Suspected That Some Kind Of A Deal Had Been Done. An Investigation Into Whether The 1980 United States Presidential Election Was Itself Held Hostage (Color, April 16, 1991, 58 Minutes.) PLUS BONUS: AMERICA'S DEFENSE MONITOR: THE USES AND ABUSES OF INTELLIGENCE, An Investigation Of William Casey And The Reagan Administration's Politicization Of Intelligence, Aided By What This Investigation Asserts Was Assisted By A Superfluity Of Intelligence Sources Crowding Out The Big Picture, And The Blowback Of CIA Black Ops In The Foreign Press Being Reported In The United States As Fact (Color, 1991, 28 Minutes) -- All Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! #1980OctoberSurprise #1980ElectionForHostagesDeal #1980UnitedStatesPresidentialElection #1980USPresidentialElection #IranHostageCrisis #RonaldReagan #GeorgeHWBush #JimmyCarter #WilliamJCasey #CIA #CIADirectorate #CovertOperations #CovertOps #BlackOperations #BlackOps #Blowback #BlowbackIntelligence #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
*August 14, 2025: Updated And Upgraded: Updated With AMERICA'S DEFENSE MONITOR: THE USES AND ABUSES OF INTELLIGENCE, And Upgraded From A Standard Format DVD To An Archival Quality Dual Layer Format DVD!
The 1980 United States Presidential Election was held in on November 4, 1980. In a landslide victory, the Republican ticket of former California governor Ronald Reagan and former Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale and the Independent ticket of Congressman John B. Anderson and former Ambassador to Mexico Patrick Lucey. Because of the rise of conservatism after Reagan's victory, many historians consider the election a political realignment. Carter's unpopularity, his poor relations with Democratic leaders, and the poor economic conditions under his administration encouraged an unsuccessful intra-party challenge from Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. Meanwhile, the Republican primaries were contested between Reagan, former Central Intelligence Agency director George H. W. Bush, Illinois Representative John B. Anderson, and several other candidates. All of Reagan's opponents had dropped out by the end of the primaries, and the Republicans nominated a ticket consisting of Reagan and Bush. Anderson entered the general election as an independent candidate with former Wisconsin governor Patrick Lucey as his running mate. Reagan campaigned for increased defense spending, supply-side economic policies, and a balanced budget. His campaign was aided by Democratic dissatisfaction with Carter, the Iran Hostage Crisis, and a worsening economy marred by stagflation. Carter attacked Reagan as a dangerous right-wing extremist, and warned that Reagan would cut Medicare and Social Security. The Carter campaign was aided early on by the rally 'round the flag effect from the hostage crisis; as the crisis lasted to election day, it became a detriment. Reagan won the election in a landslide with 489 Electoral College votes to Carter's 49, and 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%. Anderson won 6.6% of the popular vote and no electoral votes. This was the second consecutive election in which an incumbent president was defeated and the first election since 1888 in which an incumbent Democratic president was defeated.
The Iran Hostage Crisis (Persian: Bahran Gerogangiri Sefart Amrika, "The US Embassy Hostage Crisis") began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until January 20, 1981. The incident occurred after the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the building in the months following the Iranian Revolution. With support from Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the Iranian Revolution and would eventually establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, the hostage-takers demanded that the United States extradite Iranian king Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who had been granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment. Notable among the assailants were Hossein Dehghan (future Minister of Defense of Iran), Mohammad Ali Jafari (future Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), and Mohammad Bagheri (future Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces). The hostage crisis was a pivotal episode in the history of Iran-United States relations, formally sparking the ongoing Iran-United States conflict. After 444 days, it came to an end with the signing of the Algiers Accords between the Iranian and American governments; Iran's king had died in Cairo, Egypt, on July 27, 1980. The American magazine Time described the Iran hostage crisis as an entanglement of vengeance and mutual incomprehension. American president Jimmy Carter called the hostage-taking an act of "blackmail" and the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy." Among proponents of the Iranian Revolution, it was seen as an act against perceived attempts by the United States to undermine the uprising against Iran's king, who had been accused of committing numerous human rights abuses against Iranian dissidents through his Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State. The Carter administration's refusal to extradite Pahlavi was cited by the hostage-takers as proof of complicity on the part of the United States, which, in turn, denounced the Iranians' hostage-taking as an egregious violation of the principles of international law, such as the Vienna Convention, under which diplomats and diplomatic compounds are to be granted immunity from coercion and harassment. Six American diplomats who had evaded capture were rescued by the "Canadian Caper" on January 27, 1980. As Iran hostage crisis negotiations dragged out and did not secure the release of the remaining hostages, Carter approved Operation Eagle Claw on April 24, 1980. The effort failed, however, resulting in the death of one Iranian civilian and eight American soldiers, prompting Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to resign from his position. By September 1980, the beginning of the Iraqi invasion of Iran spurred the Iranian government to negotiate with the United States as part of an initiative mediated by Algeria. Political analysts cited the standoff as a major factor in the downfall of Carter's presidency, culminating in his landslide loss in the 1980 presidential election. The hostages were formally released into American custody one day after the Algiers Accords were signed, just minutes following the first inauguration of Ronald Reagan. In Iran, the crisis strengthened the prestige of Khomeini and the political power of theocrats who opposed normalization with the Western world. Since then, the United States has enforced international sanctions against Iran, which further weakened ties between the two countries.
The 1980 October Surprise refers to the covert deal negotiated by members of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign with Iranian leaders to undermine President President Jimmy Carter's election campaign by delaying the release of 66 American hostages detained in Iran. The Iran Hostage Crisis, which began when Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 during President Carter's term, was one of the biggest news stories of 1980, and Carter's not being able to resolve it was widely believed to have contributed to his loss. After 12 years of varying media attention, both houses of the United States Congress held separate inquiries and concluded that credible evidence supporting the allegation was absent or insufficient. Nevertheless, several individuals -- most notably, former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr, former Lieutenant Governor of Texas Ben Barnes, former naval intelligence officer and U.S. National Security Council member Gary Sick, and Barbara Honegger, a former campaign staffer and White House analyst for Reagan and his successor, George H. W. Bush -- have stood by the allegation.
William J. Casey, (March 13, 1913 - May 6, 1987) was an American lawyer, campaign manager for The Ronald Reagan 1980 Presidential Campaign, and Director Of Central Intelligence (DCI) from from the beginning of the Presidency Of Ronald Reagan until Casey's death in 1987. In his capacity as the Director Of Central Intelligence, he oversaw the entire United States Intelligence Community, serving as the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the United States and the United States National Security Council, and the coordinator of intelligence activities among and between the various US intelligence agencies (collectively known as the Intelligence Community since the beginning of his term of office in 1981 until the present day). As campaign manager of Ronald Reagan's successful presidential campaign in 1980, Casey helped to broker Reagan's unlikely alliance with vice presidential nominee George H. W. Bush. Shortly before the final presidential debate on October 28, 1980, the Reagan campaign acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers, classified top secret, that Carter used in preparation for the debate. The importance of these documents is still subject to debate, but the leak of campaign papers was not divulged to the public until late June 1983. James Baker has claimed that he had received the briefing book from Casey, who vehemently denied this before his death. According to prominent Texas politician Ben Barnes, Casey met with him and former Texas Governor John Connally in September 1980 to discuss Connally's trip to the Middle East. During the trip, Connally asked Arab leaders to convey to the Iranian government that Iran should wait to release American hostages until after the election of 1980 was concluded. Barnes claimed that Casey discussed with Connally if the Iranians "were going to hold the hostages," corroborating The 1980 October Surprise theory. The hostages were released minutes after Reagan was inaugurated as president. Casey then served on the transition team following the election.
A Black Operation or "Black Ops" is a covert or clandestine operation by a government agency, a military unit or a paramilitary organization in which the operation itself is at least partially hidden from the organization or government's own scrutiny. For example, in the United States, some activities by military and intelligence agencies are funded by a classified "black budget", of which the details, and sometimes even the total, are hidden from the public and from most congressional oversight. A single such activity may be called a Black Bag Operation;[9] that term is primarily used for surreptitious entries into structures to obtain information for human intelligence operations. Such operations have been carried out by the FBI, CIA, NSA, KGB, Stasi, Mossad, MI6, MI5, ASIS, COMANF, DGSE, AISE, CNI, MSS, VAJA, R&AW, UDU, SVR, FSB, GRU, ISI, BND, BIN and the intelligence services of other states.
Blowback (Intelligence) is eirther the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation or the diliberately manipulated and plausibly deniable use of such blowback to meet intelligence or political ends. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public -- in whose name the intelligence agency acted -- are unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.
The 1980 October Surprise: While 250 Hostages Were Held Captive In Iran, The Presidential Election Was Going Down To The Wire. That Election Was Dead-Even About Ten Days Going Into Election Day. Inside The Reagan Campaign, There Were Fears That The Hostages Could Become Carter's Secret Weapon. In The Back Of Many Peoples Minds Was The Belief That Carter Could Pull Off An October Surprise. Did Reagan Campaign Director William J. Casey Deceive American Voters By Striking A Deal With Iran To Delay The Release Of The Hostages? When The Hostages Were Released A Mere Thirty Minutes After Reagan Became President, Many People Suspected That Some Kind Of A Deal Had Been Done. An Investigation Into Whether The 1980 United States Presidential Election Was Itself Held Hostage (Color, April 16, 1991, 58 Minutes.) PLUS BONUS: AMERICA'S DEFENSE MONITOR: THE USES AND ABUSES OF INTELLIGENCE, An Investigation Of William Casey And The Reagan Administration's Politicization Of Intelligence, Aided By What This Investigation Asserts Was Assisted By A Superfluity Of Intelligence Sources Crowding Out The Big Picture, And The Blowback Of CIA Black Ops In The Foreign Press Being Reported In The United States As Fact (Color, 1991, 28 Minutes) -- All Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! #1980OctoberSurprise #1980ElectionForHostagesDeal #1980UnitedStatesPresidentialElection #1980USPresidentialElection #IranHostageCrisis #RonaldReagan #GeorgeHWBush #JimmyCarter #WilliamJCasey #CIA #CIADirectorate #CovertOperations #CovertOps #BlackOperations #BlackOps #Blowback #BlowbackIntelligence #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD
*August 14, 2025: Updated And Upgraded: Updated With AMERICA'S DEFENSE MONITOR: THE USES AND ABUSES OF INTELLIGENCE, And Upgraded From A Standard Format DVD To An Archival Quality Dual Layer Format DVD!
The 1980 United States Presidential Election was held in on November 4, 1980. In a landslide victory, the Republican ticket of former California governor Ronald Reagan and former Director of Central Intelligence George H. W. Bush defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale and the Independent ticket of Congressman John B. Anderson and former Ambassador to Mexico Patrick Lucey. Because of the rise of conservatism after Reagan's victory, many historians consider the election a political realignment. Carter's unpopularity, his poor relations with Democratic leaders, and the poor economic conditions under his administration encouraged an unsuccessful intra-party challenge from Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. Meanwhile, the Republican primaries were contested between Reagan, former Central Intelligence Agency director George H. W. Bush, Illinois Representative John B. Anderson, and several other candidates. All of Reagan's opponents had dropped out by the end of the primaries, and the Republicans nominated a ticket consisting of Reagan and Bush. Anderson entered the general election as an independent candidate with former Wisconsin governor Patrick Lucey as his running mate. Reagan campaigned for increased defense spending, supply-side economic policies, and a balanced budget. His campaign was aided by Democratic dissatisfaction with Carter, the Iran Hostage Crisis, and a worsening economy marred by stagflation. Carter attacked Reagan as a dangerous right-wing extremist, and warned that Reagan would cut Medicare and Social Security. The Carter campaign was aided early on by the rally 'round the flag effect from the hostage crisis; as the crisis lasted to election day, it became a detriment. Reagan won the election in a landslide with 489 Electoral College votes to Carter's 49, and 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%. Anderson won 6.6% of the popular vote and no electoral votes. This was the second consecutive election in which an incumbent president was defeated and the first election since 1888 in which an incumbent Democratic president was defeated.
The Iran Hostage Crisis (Persian: Bahran Gerogangiri Sefart Amrika, "The US Embassy Hostage Crisis") began on November 4, 1979, when 66 Americans, including diplomats and other civilian personnel, were taken hostage at the Embassy of the United States in Tehran, with 52 of them being held until January 20, 1981. The incident occurred after the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the building in the months following the Iranian Revolution. With support from Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led the Iranian Revolution and would eventually establish the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, the hostage-takers demanded that the United States extradite Iranian king Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who had been granted asylum by the Carter administration for cancer treatment. Notable among the assailants were Hossein Dehghan (future Minister of Defense of Iran), Mohammad Ali Jafari (future Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), and Mohammad Bagheri (future Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces). The hostage crisis was a pivotal episode in the history of Iran-United States relations, formally sparking the ongoing Iran-United States conflict. After 444 days, it came to an end with the signing of the Algiers Accords between the Iranian and American governments; Iran's king had died in Cairo, Egypt, on July 27, 1980. The American magazine Time described the Iran hostage crisis as an entanglement of vengeance and mutual incomprehension. American president Jimmy Carter called the hostage-taking an act of "blackmail" and the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy." Among proponents of the Iranian Revolution, it was seen as an act against perceived attempts by the United States to undermine the uprising against Iran's king, who had been accused of committing numerous human rights abuses against Iranian dissidents through his Bureau for Intelligence and Security of the State. The Carter administration's refusal to extradite Pahlavi was cited by the hostage-takers as proof of complicity on the part of the United States, which, in turn, denounced the Iranians' hostage-taking as an egregious violation of the principles of international law, such as the Vienna Convention, under which diplomats and diplomatic compounds are to be granted immunity from coercion and harassment. Six American diplomats who had evaded capture were rescued by the "Canadian Caper" on January 27, 1980. As Iran hostage crisis negotiations dragged out and did not secure the release of the remaining hostages, Carter approved Operation Eagle Claw on April 24, 1980. The effort failed, however, resulting in the death of one Iranian civilian and eight American soldiers, prompting Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to resign from his position. By September 1980, the beginning of the Iraqi invasion of Iran spurred the Iranian government to negotiate with the United States as part of an initiative mediated by Algeria. Political analysts cited the standoff as a major factor in the downfall of Carter's presidency, culminating in his landslide loss in the 1980 presidential election. The hostages were formally released into American custody one day after the Algiers Accords were signed, just minutes following the first inauguration of Ronald Reagan. In Iran, the crisis strengthened the prestige of Khomeini and the political power of theocrats who opposed normalization with the Western world. Since then, the United States has enforced international sanctions against Iran, which further weakened ties between the two countries.
The 1980 October Surprise refers to the covert deal negotiated by members of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign with Iranian leaders to undermine President President Jimmy Carter's election campaign by delaying the release of 66 American hostages detained in Iran. The Iran Hostage Crisis, which began when Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 during President Carter's term, was one of the biggest news stories of 1980, and Carter's not being able to resolve it was widely believed to have contributed to his loss. After 12 years of varying media attention, both houses of the United States Congress held separate inquiries and concluded that credible evidence supporting the allegation was absent or insufficient. Nevertheless, several individuals -- most notably, former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr, former Lieutenant Governor of Texas Ben Barnes, former naval intelligence officer and U.S. National Security Council member Gary Sick, and Barbara Honegger, a former campaign staffer and White House analyst for Reagan and his successor, George H. W. Bush -- have stood by the allegation.
William J. Casey, (March 13, 1913 - May 6, 1987) was an American lawyer, campaign manager for The Ronald Reagan 1980 Presidential Campaign, and Director Of Central Intelligence (DCI) from from the beginning of the Presidency Of Ronald Reagan until Casey's death in 1987. In his capacity as the Director Of Central Intelligence, he oversaw the entire United States Intelligence Community, serving as the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), acting as the principal intelligence advisor to the president of the United States and the United States National Security Council, and the coordinator of intelligence activities among and between the various US intelligence agencies (collectively known as the Intelligence Community since the beginning of his term of office in 1981 until the present day). As campaign manager of Ronald Reagan's successful presidential campaign in 1980, Casey helped to broker Reagan's unlikely alliance with vice presidential nominee George H. W. Bush. Shortly before the final presidential debate on October 28, 1980, the Reagan campaign acquired President Jimmy Carter's briefing papers, classified top secret, that Carter used in preparation for the debate. The importance of these documents is still subject to debate, but the leak of campaign papers was not divulged to the public until late June 1983. James Baker has claimed that he had received the briefing book from Casey, who vehemently denied this before his death. According to prominent Texas politician Ben Barnes, Casey met with him and former Texas Governor John Connally in September 1980 to discuss Connally's trip to the Middle East. During the trip, Connally asked Arab leaders to convey to the Iranian government that Iran should wait to release American hostages until after the election of 1980 was concluded. Barnes claimed that Casey discussed with Connally if the Iranians "were going to hold the hostages," corroborating The 1980 October Surprise theory. The hostages were released minutes after Reagan was inaugurated as president. Casey then served on the transition team following the election.
A Black Operation or "Black Ops" is a covert or clandestine operation by a government agency, a military unit or a paramilitary organization in which the operation itself is at least partially hidden from the organization or government's own scrutiny. For example, in the United States, some activities by military and intelligence agencies are funded by a classified "black budget", of which the details, and sometimes even the total, are hidden from the public and from most congressional oversight. A single such activity may be called a Black Bag Operation;[9] that term is primarily used for surreptitious entries into structures to obtain information for human intelligence operations. Such operations have been carried out by the FBI, CIA, NSA, KGB, Stasi, Mossad, MI6, MI5, ASIS, COMANF, DGSE, AISE, CNI, MSS, VAJA, R&AW, UDU, SVR, FSB, GRU, ISI, BND, BIN and the intelligence services of other states.
Blowback (Intelligence) is eirther the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation or the diliberately manipulated and plausibly deniable use of such blowback to meet intelligence or political ends. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public -- in whose name the intelligence agency acted -- are unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.