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Article: Carter's Foiled `October Surprise'
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- The Washington Post
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- June 24, 1987
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A missing key has been found to a story that won't go away-a
story that we wrote during the 1980 presidential campaign but that
then-President Jimmy Carter swore never happened. We reported, and
Carter angrily denied, that he was planning a military attack on Iran
as an "October surprise" on the eve of the election.
The missing evidence has been uncovered by John Barron, a former
intelligence officer specializing in Soviet affairs who is now a
senior editor for Reader's Digest. He revealed the evidence as part
of his investigation of the John Walker spy case. After digging
through exhaustive files and interviewing Walker at length, Barron
wrote a book about the Walker espionage ring.
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