Furthermore, that type of treason (manipulating behind the scenes against the very nation you are campaigning to lead) wasn't abnormal for Republicans. Ronald Reagan was equally bad. As David Armstrong and Alex Constantine reported in the July 1990 Z magazine, concerning the trial of former CIA contract agent Richard Brenneke, headlining "The October Surprise: The Verdict Is Treason," a unanimous jury found overwhelming evidence that Brenneke was telling the truth, and that on the night of 18 October 1980, Heinrich Rupp, a former Luftwaffe pilot, and then contract pilot for the CIA, had flown Brenneke and the Reagan-Bush campaign chief William Casey from Washington's National Airport to Le Bourget Airfield near Paris, for secret meetings the next two days at the Waldorf Florida and Crillon Hotels, in order to arrange the Iran-Contra deal with Iran: Khomeini would continue to hold the American hostages until the 1980 election in order to defeat Jimmy Carter; and, then, if Carter lost, Khomeini would continue to wait, and would release them on the day of Reagan's inauguration, in return for which, Reagan's Administration would secretly sell Iran weapons, in violation of America's arms-embargo against Iran. As is widely known, the profits from those illegal and secret arms-sales to Iran funded the right-wing "Contras," who were fighting to bring down the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua (the "Iran-Contra Affair"). So: Bill Casey became appointed by Reagan to head the CIA. Donald Gregg, who was also on that flight, became the National Security Adviser to V.P. G.H.W. Bush. Brenneke testified that Brenneke was himself present at the negotiations only on their last day, October 20th, for the purpose of "working out the details of the cash and weapons transactions."
The U.S. major media gave far less coverage to this historic trial than they did to the far less credible allegations by Gary Sick and others about Reagan's having won the Presidency through Iran-Contra treason. The evidence in the Brenneke trial was just too damning for it to receive coverage in the U.S. major "news" media.
Perhaps if America's press were not so censored (however it happens to be so), the routine practice of treason by top Republicans would be widespread public knowledge, instead of the virtual secret that, tragically, it now is, and long has been.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010 , and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity .
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