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...most glaring contradiction now known is between CIA Director William Casey and Chief of Staff James Baker. Baker wrote to a congressional committee in June that Carter's strategy book for the debate with Reagan had been passed to him by Casey, who was then Reagan's campaign chairman. "It is my best recollection that I was given the book by William Casey, with the suggestion that it might be of use," his letter said. Casey, on the other hand, wrote to the committee that "I have no recollection that I ever received, heard of, or learned...
...Central American situation. Her findings prompted the Administration to ask for an additional $110 million in military aid to El Salvador in fiscal 1983, on top of Reagan's original request for $61.3 million. Another point on which Clark and Kirkpatrick agreed, with the support of CIA Director William Casey, was that Thomas Enders, then in charge of Latin American policy at the State Department, should be replaced. They felt that Enders was moving too slowly and cautiously. In May, Clark took the lead in getting Enders ousted and reassigned as Ambassador to Spain, a move that resulted in Clark...
...staff, was "secure" in his job. Baker has admitted seeing the briefing papers. Other White House sources said that the President also retains his confidence in Budget Director David Stockman, who used the Carter book to rehearse Reagan for the debate. Just where that leaves CIA Director William Casey, Reagan's 1980 campaign manager, who has obliquely denied having given the papers to Baker, as Baker claims he did, was not as clear. Washington press pundits continued to speculate last week that either Baker or Casey, who represent rival political factions among Reagan's top advisers, will have...
...papers fuss, Baker in particular was carrying out a busy schedule of normal White House business last week. Indeed, the staff was settling back into a state of near normality. In the Reagan Administration, however, it is normal for the Baker-Stockman wing of advisers and those led by Casey, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese and National Security Adviser William Clark to eye each other with considerable suspicion...
Actually, the heat may now shift from Baker to Casey. TIME has learned that, as rumored, Casey did indeed set up a political intelligence-gathering apparatus for the Reagan campaign. But it was not simply a casual use of retired military officers asked to stay alert for any U.S. aircraft moves that might signal the Reagan camp that Carter was about to gain the freedom of the U.S. embassy hostages in Iran-the "October surprise" that Reagan's political aides feared. Instead, cooperative former agents of both the FBI and the CIA were used to gather political information from...