October Surprise Vote Coming

(A Brian Quig article from 1991)

Funding for a full scale congressional investigation of the OCTOBER SURPRISE (the allegation that the Reagan)Bush campaign cut a weapons deal with the Iranians in exchange for the delay of the release of U.S hostages) is soon to come to a vote on the House floor. Barbara Honegger, author of the best selling book OCTOBER SURPRISE, was told that if she could prove the CIA background of Spencer Oliver, the Chief Council for the Senate committee investigating OCTOBER SURPRISE, that he would be replaced. Guess what? She did and a new chief council was appointed.

During the 1975 PIKE COMMITTEE investigation of the untoward events surrounding the forced resignation of President Richard Nixon, I had an opportunity to question John Dean, Nixon's personal attorney. A chill fell over the room when I started asking about the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and the shooting of George Wallace.

It was clear everyone else there thought I was out of line and it would have been easy for Dean to duck this line of questioning. His answer was most direct. He said that "Bob Bennett and Spencer Oliver should be investigated in this regard" and that "all the similar CIA types connected to WATERGATE had since dropped out of sight in all media coverage".

I was a bear cub back then and it was not until the investigations of the SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS two years later that I was to learn who these men were. Bob Bennett was the direct superior of Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt at the CIA's public relations firm, MULLEN AND COMPANY and Spencer Oliver's office at the DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS was the target of the bread)in.

The U.S. intelligence community is so incestuous that what we had was the CIA working with the REPUBLICANS breaking into the office of the CIA working with the DEMOCRATS! Add to this the disclosure that Alexander Butterfield, who sealed Nixon's fate by revealing the existence of the White House tapes, was in fact the highest ranking CIA official in the White House (unknown to Nixon) and it is easy to conclude that the CIA is enormously significant and should be watched with the utmost care.