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...used the papers while playing the role of Carter to rehearse Reagan for the debate, claimed that he did not know how the documents had been acquired. Chief of Staff James Baker readily admitted having seen the book and said he got it from CIA Director William Casey, who was then Reagan's campaign manager. Casey said he had "no recollection" of having seen it. Communications Director David Gergen, who had also helped prepare Reagan for the debate, similarly could not remember ever possessing such Carter papers...
...Director Casey had survived past probes of his finances and his choice of a relatively unqualified official as a top deputy of the CIA. Now he had been named by Baker as a conduit for the Carter papers. The Washington Post reported that in 1980 Casey had set up what he called an "intelligence operation" to keep the Reagan staff informed of any attempt by Carter to spring a much feared "October surprise" in the campaign, such as gaining freedom for the U.S. embassy hostages held captive in Tehran. The Post claimed that Casey had used retired military officers...
White House Chief of Staff James Baker remembers a thick black notebook. Budget Director David Stockman remembers a set of unbound papers. CIA Chief William Casey says he has no recollection of the document...
...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 for the mole and the book...
Baker said he recalled seeing a book "that was thought to have been given by someone with the Carter campaign." He reckoned that he received it from Casey and passed it on to Gergen and Frank Hodsoll, head of the debate team. Hodsoll, now chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, recalled the book. But Casey claimed to have "no recollection" of it and Gergen hedged, saying that he did not remember "ever receiving or seeing" it but may have seen "some pages...