SCHOLAR SAYS CASEY WAS IN LONDON IN JULY 1980

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 2, 1991
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Scholar Says Casey Was In London in July 1980
By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Reagan campaign manager William Casey
abandoned his political duties in late July 1980 and traveled to
London for a meeting of World War II history scholars.
That much is now known.
What isn't known: whether Casey made a side trip to Madrid to
strike a deal with Iran delaying release of the 52 American
as alleged by an Iranian arm dealer.
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Historian Robert..8' said Tuesday he-had his photograph taken
with Casey at the London conference the evening of July 28, 1980
and sat down with him at breakfast, probably the next morning.
The two chatted about politics and about Reagan's acceptance
speech 10 days earlier at the Republican National convention,
recalled Dallek, author of a forthcoming biography on President
Lyndon Johnson.
Arms dealer Jamshid Hashemi alleges that Casey was in Madrid in
late July, holding secret talks so that U.S. hostages held in
Lebanon wouldn't be freed until after election day.
Hashemi's allegations have been aired by public television's
Frontline'' program and ABC-TV's "Nightline.''
Casey's campaign schedule in the United States was blank for
July 27-29.
Casey spoke to the London conference the morning of July 29
about secret operations during World war II, participants told
Nightline'' last week.
It is a two-hour flight by cairnercial airliner from London to
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"Where he was before and after the conference I don't know, but
I know he was in London' starting late on July 28th, Dallek, a
history professor at the University of California at Los Angeles,
said in an interview.
Dallek says he retrieved an old file on the London conference at
the request of Spencer Oliver, special counsel to the House Foreign
Affairs C mi ittee. That's where Dallek turned up the photo with
Casey.
Congressional staffers are looking into allegations that the
Reagan-Bush camp dealt with Iran to avoid what it feared could be
an October Surprise - success by the Carter White House in
negotiating the release of the 52 U.S. hostages held in Tehran.
So it's a fact that Casey abandoned the presidential campaign
for several days late in July 1980.
Dallek finds that "somewhat puzzling,'' but not out of the
question. Casey was a history buff as well as a World War TT
He had been contacted in 1979 about appearing at the London
conference.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/11: CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050011-5