that Bush had been there, and there appear to be no files or records at the country club
that could prove his presence.
Don Gregg has also attempted to provide his own alibi for October 18-19. This came in a
trial in Portland, Orgeon in April-May, 1990 in which the Bush regime had indicted
Richard Brenneke for perjury allegedly committed in telling the story of the Paris
meeting and Bush's presence to a federal judge in a Colorado trial in which Heinrich
Rupp had been convicted for bank fraud in September, 1988. Gregg's story was that he
had been at the beach in Delaware with his family during the period in question, and he
produced some photographs he said were made during those days. Expert witness Bob
Lynott, an experienced weatherman, refuted Gregg's testimony by showing that the
weather conditions in Delaware that day did not match those shown by meteorological
records. Gregg was discredited, and Brenneke was acquitted on the charge of perjury.
The Bushmen have also brought forward Gordon Crovitz of the Wall Street Journal with
a log of Bush's activities on October 19 that includes a luncheon with former US
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart of Skull and Bones. But Potter Stewart died in
1985.
Finally Secret Service logs show that Bush arrived at the Capitol Hilton to speak before
the Zionist Association of America at either 7 PM or 8:12 PM, depending on which
Secret Service records are consulted. [fn 42]
If Bush had flown to Paris by private or military jet and returned the same way, or if he
had returned by the Concorde or some other type of commercial jetliner, there would
have been ample time for him to proceed to Paris and participate in the consultations
described. There is another intriguing possibility: during this same period of 24 hours,
Iranian Prime Minister Ali Rajai, an adversary of Bani-Sadr and puppet of Khomeini,
was in New York preparing to depart for Algiers after consultations at the United
Nations. Rajai had refused all contact with the Carter, Muskie and other US officials, but
he may have been more interested in meeting Bush or one of his representatives.
Between October 21 and October 23, Israel despatched a planeload of much-needed F-4
Phantom jet spare parts it Iran in violation of the US arms boycott. Who in Washington
had sanctioned these shipments? In Teheran, the US hostages were reportedly dispersed
into a multitude of locations on October 22. Also on October 22, Prime Minister Rajai,
back from New York and Algiers, announced that Iran wanted neither American spare
parts nor American arms. The Iranian approach to the ongoing contacts with the Carter
Administration now began to favor evasive delaying tactics. There were multiple
indications that Khomeini had decided that Reagan-Bush was a better bet than Carter, and
that Reagan-Bush had made the more generous offer.
Barbara Honegger, then an official of the Reagan-Bush campaign recalls that "on October
24th or 25th, an assistant to Stephan Halper's 'October Surprise' intelligence operation
echoed William Casey's newfound confidence, boasting to the author in the operations
center where [Reagan-Bush Iran watcher Michel] Smith worked that the campaign no