Demonic by Ann Coulter

representatives of presidential candidate Reagan and the Ayatollah. The two key American “witnesses” to the October Surprise were paranormal expert Barbara Honegger and fake CIA agent Richard Brenneke.
    Honegger was a former low-level Reagan staffer, who told reporters she heard voices from the future. 15 She believed in supernatural events and claimed that an intelligence officer told her that satellites were directed to part the clouds during Reagan’s inauguration so that the sun would shine only on him. 16 She was briefly famous in 1983 for accusing the Reagan administration of not caring about women, announcing to one of her many fawning media admirers, “I am honored to have beenused by the Force, if you will, with a capital F, like in ‘Star Wars.’ That’s how I feel. You know, the Zeitgeist of history.” 17 Honegger was Christopher Hitchens’s main source for his stories promoting the October Surprise conspiracy in The Nation magazine.
    In search of an ally, Honegger approached fake CIA agent Brenneke and told him about the October Surprise story. She handed him a list of Reagan associates asking him to put a check by those who were at the Paris meetings. Brenneke’s own notes of the meeting show that this was the first he had heard of the October Surprise “thesis,” as he called it. He wrote, “Honegger meeting notes: Thesis: Reagan-Bush campaign conspired to delay the hostage release until after the November 1979 election [sic]  … Howard Hughes was somehow involved. …”
    Brenneke was about to be fired from his lucrative job with a left-wing think tank for failing to produce evidence of a different conspiracy theory, so he needed a new gig. Suddenly, it rang a bell. And so, a few weeks later, not only had Brenneke heard of the October Surprise meeting—he had been there! A LaRouchite confirmed that he had seen Brenneke at the meeting, something Brenneke himself had not remembered until that very moment.
    According to these three reliable sources—Brenneke, Honegger, and the LaRouchite—in October 1980, George H. W. Bush (later Reagan’s vice president), William Casey (later Reagan’s CIA director), and presumably Howard Hughes met with the Ayatollah’s representatives in Paris to make their nefarious deal. We’re still trying to determine if the Freemasons were involved.
    Needless to say, Secret Service records established the precise location of vice presidential candidate Bush throughout the 1980 campaign. And he wasn’t in Paris. Once that was confirmed, the conspiracy theorists simply dropped Bush from their imaginary meeting but were otherwise undaunted. The dates of the alleged meetings kept changing, depending on what could be proved about William Casey’s whereabouts in the fall of 1980. By process of elimination, the wackadoodles finally settled on three days in October for which there appeared to be no evidence of Casey’s whereabouts.
    With the conspirators having finally decided that October 17—20were the absolutely, positively definite dates for the alleged October Surprise meetings, it turned out Casey’s whereabouts could be proved after all. He was at a conference in London, “The Anglo-American History of World War II.” Unfortunately for the conspirators, the conference director kept detailed notes on who attended each session. Not only was Casey present at nearly every talk, including his own, but there were credit card receipts establishing Casey’s presence in London even during brief periods when he left the conference. In all, Casey’s precise location could be proved for nearly every minute of the three-day period. And he wasn’t in Paris, either.
    Then it turned out that even fake CIA agent Brenneke was not in Paris during the alleged October Surprise meeting. Having placed himself at the center of the secret meetings in Paris, Brenneke planned to capitalize on it by “writing” a book. So he turned over all his notes and diaries—8,000 pages in