House October Surprise Task Force

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Group.png House October Surprise Task Force  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
FormationMarch 1992
ExtinctionJanuary 1993
Statuscaptured
Typewhitewash
Membership• Lee H. Hamilton
• Henry Hyde
• Lawrence Barcella
• Richard J. Leon
• Peggy Adler
• Mervyn M. Dymally
A group tasked with creating an official narrative to explain away evidence of the October Surprise conspiracy.

This was a task force instituted by the United States House of Representatives in March 1992 to examine the October Surprise allegations: that during the 1980 United States presidential election the campaign of Ronald Reagan had sought to negotiate a solution to the Iran hostage crisis in competition to the US government of Jimmy Carter, in order to prevent the successful resolution of the crisis giving Jimmy Carter an electoral boost.


 

Known members

2 of the 6 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Lawrence BarcellaAssistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. "A favorite of the intelligence community" he was involved in a number of intelligence-related cases. He was also part of the Congressional cover-up of October Surprise.
Lee H. HamiltonHaving chaired some key house committees, Hamilton appears to have established himself as a safe pair of hands for handling potentially damaging information, explaining his choice as fallback vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission.
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