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Basic questions about the Carter papers remain unanswered: Was there an orchestrated effort by Reagan agents to penetrate the Carter campaign? Were documents illegally taken? A House subcommittee headed by Democratic Congressman Donald Albosta of Michigan is expected to report its conclusions this week. A new probe would be embarrassing to Reagan during a campaign year, when Democrats are accusing his Administration of "sleazy" conduct. In addition, an inquiry would further jeopardize the nomination of Edwin Meese as Attorney General, which is on hold while another special prosecutor, Jacob Stein, looks into allegations about Meese's finances...
...investigation into how Reagan's political advisers got Jimmy Carter's debate briefing book, Michigan Congressman Donald Albosta, angry at White House refusals to give his subcommittee total access to all campaign files, threatened to use his subpoena power. The White House offered Albosta copies of documents turned up by the FBI, and said it would provide wider access only if Albosta also looks into dirty tricks in the Carter campaign...
...Adviser, has admitted receiving on three occasions what he calls "innocuous, trite, useless, nonsubstantive, nonclassified and unsolicited material" from Carter's National Security Council. At the time, Allen reported directly to Meese. Allen gave the name of his NSC source to a House subcommittee headed by Democrat Donald Albosta, which is probing the affair, but he refused to divulge it publicly...
...staff member of the Albosta subcommittee doubts that a Reagan campaign spying operation will be found. Said he: "It's gone beyond something just coming over the transom, but we don't see it heading into a major organized effort." Meantime, for the majority of the press, most Democrats and those Washington officials not directly involved, the "Who Stole the Briefing Book?" story remained primarily a summertime diversion from their usual heavy arguments over nuclear arms control and what to do about El Salvador...
...inquiry by Michigan Democratic Representative Donald J. Albosta, chairman of the panel that oversees the Ethics in Government Act, was sparked by a new book on Reagan, Gambling with History, by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett. Barrett wrote that "apparently a Reagan mole in the Carter camp had filched the papers containing the main points" Carter planned to make in the debate. Baker, Stockman, Casey and Communications Director David Gergen, all former Reagan campaign aides, sent Albosta letters explaining what they knew about the papers. Meanwhile, Administration officials debated whether to ask the Justice Department to launch a search...