Tag: Iran Contra

NOVANEWS By Robert Parry Consortiumnews   First published by Consortium News on April 6, 2016 “Deny everything,” British traitor Kim Philby said, explaining how the powerful can bluff past their crimes, something known to George H.W. Bush when he denied charges of his own near treason in the October Surprise case, wrote Robert Parry on 4/6/2016 A recently discovered lecture by the late British traitor Kim Philbycontains a lesson that may help explain how George H.W. Bush could bluff and bluster his way past mounting evidence that he and other Republicans conspired in 1980 to block release of 52 U.S. hostages in Iran and thus ensure Ronald Reagan’s election, an alleged gambit that bordered on treason itself. In a speech in East Berlin in 1981 – just aired by the BBC – the Soviet d...