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- THE WEEK, Page 23NATIONNovember Bust
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- A Senate report finds no evidence of a hostage deal, but
- questions remain
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- It was an exoneration without much conviction. The Senate
- Foreign Relations Committee's investigation of allegations that
- the Reagan campaign connived with Iranian authorities to delay
- the release of 52 American hostages during the 1980 election
- concluded that "the great weight of evidence is that there was
- no such deal." But the committee report did charge that the
- conduct of Reagan campaign chairman and later CIA Director
- William Casey verged "on the outer limits of propriety" when he
- secretly gathered intelligence on the delicate U.S.-Iranian
- hostage negotiations in 1980. The investigation, run on a
- shoestring budget, never did find such critical evidence as
- Casey's passport or hundreds of hours of vital FBI surveillance
- tapes. Perhaps a parallel House investigation expected next year
- will be more enlightening.
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