Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!grkermi!andrew
From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Rainbow Warrior/Iran Hostage conspiracy theories ...
Message-ID: <657@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 08:27:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: grkermi.657
Posted: Mon Oct  7 08:27:56 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Oct-85 06:37:18 EDT
References: <10559@ucbvax.ARPA>
Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
Lines: 12
Keywords: paranoia incorporated

In article <10559@ucbvax.ARPA> tedrick@ucbernie.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
>Here is the latest conspiracy theory I heard:
>
>That the failure of the mission to rescue the hostages
>in Iran was the result of a plot to make Carter look bad,
>so as to help Reagan to get elected.

I don't know about the April, 1980 rescue attempt... but noted truther Sy
Hirsch claims that a Reagan mole in the Pentagon sabotaged a second rescue
mission (planned for October, 1980) by leaking it to the press.  

AWR