#Reagan
4 entries tagged Reagan.
People (3)
- Barbara Honegger Barbara Honegger was a Reagan White House policy analyst who resigned in 1983 and subsequently published the 1989 book October Surprise, one of the first detailed published accounts alleging that the Reagan campaign secretly negotiated with Iran in 1980 to delay the release of American hostages.
- John Poindexter Vice Admiral John Poindexter served as Reagan's National Security Adviser from December 1985 to November 1986, authorized the Iran-Contra diversion without informing the president, was convicted on five counts before reversal on immunized-testimony grounds, and later directed DARPA's Total Information Awareness program until Congress terminated it in 2003.
- Lawrence King Jr. Lawrence King Jr. was the operator of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha whose 1988 collapse revealed $39.4 million in embezzlement and triggered abuse allegations linking King's Republican Party connections to a Washington D.C. child prostitution ring.
Events (1)
- October Surprise The October Surprise allegation holds that William J. Casey and other figures in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign secretly negotiated with Iranian representatives to delay the release of 52 American hostages past Election Day in exchange for promises of arms and release of frozen Iranian assets, with the hostages released minutes after Reagan was sworn in on January 20, 1981.