Word: caseys
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Among the papers were economic memos prepared by Carter aides for the Cabinet. Marked " Not for public distribution," they were attached to a covering note addressed to Reagan campaign officials "Bob Gray, Bill Casey, Ed Meese." The note was signed by a low-level Reagan volunteer, Daniel Jones. Jones had written on one of the papers: "Bob-Report from White House mole." Another Jones note to Gray, Casey and Meese included the final week of Carter's campaign schedule, labeled by Jones the "latest information from reliable White House mole." Jones, now a Washington stockbroker, told the Post...
...Carter source only once and had not even learned "his" name, but promised to help the FBI identify the person if asked to do so. The fact that Jones' memos were addressed to such senior aides as Meese, now Counsellor to the President, and Casey, who is CIA director, complicated their attempts to isolate themselves from the brouhaha. Declared Meese: "I do not have any recollection of any memo from Jones or anyone else that mentioned a mole in the White House...
...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...
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...