Former Texas governor urged Middle Eastern leaders to convince Iran not to release hostages before 1980 election
Being able to confirm Barnes’s account, the Times said, is difficult “after so much time”.
“Barnes has no diaries or memos to corroborate his account. But he has no obvious reason to make up the story and indeed expressed trepidation at going public because of the reaction of fellow Democrats,” the Times wrote. Connally died in 1993. And Casey, who went on to become the director of central intelligence, died in 1987.
John Connally III, Connally’s eldest son, told the Times that he remembered his father taking the Middle East trip but had never heard about a message being sent toBarnes told the Times he had shared the information with four people over the years: Tom Johnson, a former Lyndon B Johnson White House aide who later became president of CNN; Mark K Updegrove, president of the LBJ Foundation; Larry Temple, a former aide to Connally and Lyndon Johnson; and HW Brands, a University of Texas historian.
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