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"[T]his is a very dark chapter in American history and... we dont like coming to terms with the dark, dirty parts of our American history."
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Craig UngerWithin... intelligence, assets... include those who... prefer... [a fo — Craig Unger
"Within... intelligence, assets... include those who... prefer... [a foreign countrys] ideology, those who betray... for monetary gain, those... ed, and... useful idiots who... provide... information through... lapses or blind pursuit of their own agendas."
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Craig Unger
Craig Unger
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Craig Unger is an American journalist and writer. He has served as deputy editor of The New York Observer and was editor-in-chief of Boston magazine. He has written about George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush for The New Yorker, Esquire Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He has written about the Romney family and Hart InterCivic, as well as about Donald Trump's links to the Russian mafia, Vladimir Putin, a
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"[W]hen I started investigating this in 1991... for Esquire magazine... [it] was the first... fleshed out narrative of... how the Republicans made a secret deal with Iran and delayed the release of the hostages... I was immediately hired by magazine. I was led to believe we would be leading a full bore investigation... with the substantial resources of Newsweek and its correspondents all over the world. But... the experience was almost like a "" operation that brought me on board so that I couldnt write it... Newsweek ended up doing three stories in a row saying the October surprise didnt happen..."
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"When things happen, thats news. When things dont happen, thats not news, and you dont keep reporting that it didnt happen."
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"[I]n 1968... Richard Nixon got... to intervene with the Paris Peace Talks. Lyndon Johnson was trying to end the Vietnam War with Peace Talks in Paris and Richard Nixons gofer got the South Vietnamese to back out at the last minute and made the Democrats look ridiculous, and Nixon won in a squeaker."
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"Nixon... believed all those conversations he had with LBJ were taped, and he was worried about what documents the democrats had, so he dispatched a group of burglars... to break into the Brookings Institute and Watergate Hotel, and... in 1972 you have Watergate."
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"My book... is not just about trying to uncover this conspiracy.... its about the national conversation, about how the news we consume is shaped and what is repressed."
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