September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

President Carter did initiate a rescue attempt of the hostages, which failed when the
helicopters carrying the rescue teams crashed in the desert. Later, it would be rumored
that the rescue attempt was sabotaged:
“Reports that have surfaced from the intelligence community indicate that the rescue attempt may have
been sabotaged…” [Hostage deal, Inslaw cases connected in Congressional probe, Harry V. Martin,
Copyright, Napa Sentinel 1991 ]
In asking who may have sabotaged the attempt to rescue 52 American citizens, Barbara
Honnegger, former Whitehouse staff in the Reagan administration suggested it was some
of the same people that planned and executed the October Surprise and the Iran-Contra
deals.
“Honegger: ... and then of course we have Richard Secord, Oliver North and Albert Hakim. Richard
Secord was one of the chief planners for the so- called failed Desert 1 rescue attempt, North was
involved in that rescue attempt, in the mother ship, which was on the Turkish border awaiting the cue
from Secord to fly in and rescue the hostages, and Albert Hakim was in charge of the ground
operations of the rescue attempt, in particular, obtaining the trucks and other vehicles which were
going to be needed. Hakim skipped town, left Tehran 24 hours before the rescue was to take place, and
the reason for that, as detailed in my research documentation, was that Secord, North and Hakimhad no
intention of seeing Desert 1 carry through, and so sabotaged the operation.”
The sabotage of the rescue attempt, as was the October Surprise, was part of a bigger
effort to prevent the re-election of Jimmy Carter and place Ronald Reagan in the
Presidency.
“Richard Wirthlin, the pollster for the Reagan-Bush campaign, said that if the hostages were released
before the election Carter would gain a boost of 5 or 6 percentage points in the polls, or even as much
as 10 percent, giving him a sure victory for that election.” [Hostage deal, Inslaw cases connected in
Congressional probe, Harry V. Martin,Copyright, Napa Sentinel 1991 ]
“What is also known, is that the Carter Administration, according to Gary Sick, was on
the verge of obtaining the release of the hostages in October 1980, which probably would
have assured his reelection. After the date that Bush allegedly went to Paris, the
negotiations with the Iranians collapsed.”
There were two subsequent clandestine meetings, one at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in
Washington, D.C, and a second in Paris. During these meetings, a number of American,
Israeli and Iranian officials and arms dealers negotiated and executed the prevention of an
“October Surprise” release of the hostages by Iran. Harry Martin has best related the
account:
“The Israelis, because of their role of mediator between the United States and Iran and also as the
deliverers of U.S. weapons to Iran after the conclusion of the meetings, are believed to have arranged
the meetings in the first place.”
“Russbacher (CIA operative and one of the pilots of the plane that took Bush to Paris) states that Bush,
while in Paris, met with Hashemi Rafsanjani, the second in command to the Ayatollah and now the
president of Iran, and Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian businessman who was extremely powerful.
Arrangements were apparently made to pay Iran $40 million to delay the release of hostages in order to
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