SCHOLAR SAYS CASEY WAS IN LONDON IN JULY 1980

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00418R000100050010-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 3, 1991
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STAT
Scholar says Casey was
in London in July 1980
esgen campaign manager Wil-
liam Casey abandoned his political
STAT
duties in late
July 1980 and
traveled to Lon-
don for a meet-
ing of World
War II history
scholars.
That much is
now known.
What isn't
known:
Whether Mr.
Casey made a side trip to Madrid to
strike a deal with Iran delaying re-
lease of the 52 American hostages
held in Tehran, as alleged by an
Iranian arms dealer.
Historian Robert Dallek said
yesterday he had his photograph
taken with Mr. Casey at the London
conference the evening of July 28,
1980, and sat down with him at
breakfast, probably the next morn-
ing.
Arms dealer Jamshid Hashemi
alleges that Mr. Casey was in Mad-
rid in late July, holding secret talks
so that U.S. hostages in Iran
wouldn't be freed until after elec-
tion day.
It is a two-hour flight by com-
mercial airliner from London to
Madrid.
"Where he was before and after
the conference I don't know, but I
know he was in London" starting
late on July 28th, Mr. A a his-
tory professor at the University of
California at Los Angeles, said in
an interview.
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