Half right.
It was instead a Republican operation based on the 1980 October surprise.
Doesn't anyone remember when the CIA Director Bill Casey suddenly had a stroke requiring an operation that removed the part of his brain responsible for speech.
Just so happens it occurred on the very morning before he was supposed to testify before Congress on his involvement in this covert operation.
Coincidentally he was also working in the campaign for the election of Ronald Reagan during this operation .